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taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier.
Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you
the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit
immediately.
1. Make money from old electronics
As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

Summary:
Our political pundits focus on the “election as horse race” to conceal
the relatively small policy differences between the two parties, and so
sooth a somnolent public who might become restive if they understood the
nature of the New America being constructed on the ruins o ...

Summary:
The votes are counted. The Democratic Party defeated the GOP. The Left
won a phantom victory. The Right won the real thing. This is not the
full story about the election, which has so many threads (each with its
own implications). It might be the most important. Also — see the ...

Summary:
Here are three excerpts from articles that perfectly express my view
about the election, doing so far better than I could. Please read them
in full. This is an important election, although in different ways than
believed by partisans on both sides. . Contents “The Politics of Fea
...

Steven
Metz, Chairman of the Regional Strategy Department of the Army War
College’s Strategic Studies Institute, noted in a tweet a few days ago
that “Ten plus years and people are still trying to pound the round peg
of terrorism into the square hole of war.” Which got me think ...

Summary:
On weekends the FM website runs mostly Q&A, speculative opinions,
and excerpts from extraordinarily insightful articles. This is an
excerpt. Please read it in full, as it provides powerful insights about
the foundations of today’s political machinery. This excerpt provides j
...

Open Your Eyes News

Press
TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the
Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday,
after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph
reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the
vigil, ...

Breitbart
– The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss
franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened
investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European
single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...

PressTV
– A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by
94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in
retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that
almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]

IOL
– The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of
deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre
de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold
searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the
destruction of ...

Daily
Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government
regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold
will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then
be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA.
...

The Progressive Realist

President
Obama’s re-election means that several recent international development
initiatives from his administration suddenly have four more years bear
fruit. These include the Feed the Future effort to improve global food
security, and USAID Forward, an effort to improve the effectiveness of t
...

With
a second term assured, President Barack Obama has a shot at making a
huge difference in greater South Asia, an opportunity that he failed to
take in his first term. This may now be the time for a new hyphenation
across the map of that critical part of the globe: bringing together a
string o ...

Top
stories from DAWNS Digest.
Scores Killed in Massive Earthquake in Guatemala
This was the biggest earthquake to hit Guatemala since a calamitous
quake of 1975 that killed 20,000. “A 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked
Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 48 people in two states as it
toppled ...

Linking
a single storm to climate change is perilous at best for the simple
reason that anything less than a decade or two of data isn’t climate,
it’s just weather. But Sandy may yet prove the exception owing to its
sheer anomalousness. Even before Sandy fully dissipated, ...

This
post is by Anthony Elghossain, an attorney at a global law firm based
in Washington, D.C. He blogs at Page Lebanon.
On October 19, a bomb tore through Achrafieh, a predominantly Christian
neighborhood and upscale gathering place in Beirut. Initially, many
Lebanese believed the bomb was a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

When the applause among Democrats and recriminations among Republicans
begin to quiet down—probably within the next few days—the President will
have to make some big decisions. The biggest is on the economy.
His victory and the pending “fiscal cliff” give him an opportunity to
recast the econom ...

The day after Barack Obama was re-elected, the Dow Jones lost 312.96
points. It wasn’t just that investors were hoping for the lower taxes
and further deregulation that would come with a Romney win. The news
from Europe was bad, and pundits were obsessively focused on the “fiscal
cliff” of ma ...

(AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Former California governor Pete Wilson with his wife Gayle in 1995.
During his tenure, Wilson promoted Proposition 187, which would have
denied all public services to undocumented immigrants—a move that is
credited with turning Latinos in the state against the GOP ...

How long has it been since America’s long-suffering liberals had an
Election Night like Tuesday? The answer is 1964, folks. So enjoy your
schadenfreude and revel in the spectacle of the right wing dealing with
the combination of dismay and cluelessness that has regularly, like
clockwork, beset ...

Given how little Republicans have to celebrate today, it might be
tempting for the more enthusiastic conservatives to sip at least a
little champagne over gubernatorial dominance. While races for the top
state job in Montana and Washington remain too close to call,
Republicans successfully capt ...

Buzzflash

PAUL
BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much
of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically
contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate.
Obstructionist
In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...

WILL
DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the
middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back.
Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem.
The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the
...

MARK
KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash
blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in
the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout.
Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...

MARK
KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote?
That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place
onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the
homeless, students and others to vote.
Politico recen ...

Sciencebase

A
case study of six leading pharmaceutical companies – Amgen, Elan,
Lundbeck, Merck, UCB and Wyeth – by Annabeth Aagaard of the University
of Southern Denmark points to how the industry might adapt to ongoing
pressures from rising R&D costs, depreciating patent value and
public ...

In
case you haven’t been keeping up, I wrote a book this year – Deceived
Wisdom: Why what you thought was right is wrong. It’s all about the
facts that we take for granted that aren’t really facts at all. They’re
ficts, you might say. The received wisdom that deceiv ...

During
the last two decades, India has emerged as a leading player in clinical
trials, manufacturing and R&D of pharmaceuticals. Today, the Indian
pharmaceutical industry is growing rapidly and ranks third in the world
by volume sales (14th by value) amounting to US $20 billion with
forecas ...

Laws
of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should
operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated
by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in
or simply interested in research and development in the fields of
robotics ...

There
is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some
companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads,
interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the
song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with
you, but if they can ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

By
a three to one margin, Massachusetts voters yesterday sent a clear
message to both Democrats and Republicans in Washington about the
federal budget crisis and the impending “fiscal cliff”. The Budget for
All ballot question passed by 661,033 to 222,514 votes. It calls for no
cuts ...

U.S.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), re-elected with 71 percent of the vote,
said right-wing extremism suffered a major defeat in yesterday’s
election.
Despite dozens of billionaires spending unprecedented sums of money
trying to defeat President Barack Obama and progressive candidates
around ...

U.S.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), re-elected with 71 percent of the vote,
said right-wing extremism suffered a major defeat in yesterday’s
election.
Despite dozens of billionaires spending unprecedented sums of money
trying to defeat President Barack Obama and progressive candidates
around ...

From
Massachusetts to Oregon, Colorado to Illinois and Wisconsin, and Ohio
to California, citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly
yesterday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to
overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commiss ...

From
Massachusetts to Oregon, Colorado to Illinois and Wisconsin, and Ohio
to California, citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly
yesterday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to
overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commiss ...

Common Dreams-Views

Erin Niemela
Election night is finally over. Television can resume its originally
broadcast programs and Facebook can return to cat memes and photos of
our dinner. We can go back to talking about our personal lives at work
and o ...

Vince Warren
Two big things happened in the last week, and they're both going to
require our attention for the next four years and beyond: the national
election repudiated religious conservatives and handed Obama a second
term, and Hurr ...

Ralph Nader
The “democracy gap” in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of
powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote
for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why af ...

Ralph Nader
The “democracy gap” in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of
powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote
for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why af ...

By
Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Outgoing
Pasco County Commissioner Ann Hildebrand hugs Property Appraiser Mike
Wells, at a luncheon on Wednesday. DADE CITY – When county Administrator
John Gallagher offered to organize a blowout retirement party at
Saddlebrook Resort ...

Ramallah
5 November 2012
Due to Israel’s ongoing separation policies between Gaza and the
West Bank, countless Palestinian spouses have been split while parents
have been forcibly separated from their children.

The Wonk Room

Earlier
this year, a series by investigative outlet ProPublica found that
whites are four times more likely than minorities to receive a
presidential pardon, and that the rates over the past few presidencies
for both pardons and sentence commutations are jarringly low. The
coverage prompted the ...

It’s
fair to say that the 2012 elections were a big victory for the LGBT
community, in terms of both issues and candidates, but that is much more
true for the LGB than it is the T. Certainly the transgender community
can benefit from same-sex marriage laws; some states will recognize
their ...

Wall
Street, after giving more to President Obama during the 2008 election
than to his opponent Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), flipped during the 2012
election to give the vast majority of its campaign donations to Mitt
Romney. As Matt Phillips outlined at Quartz, “individuals affiliated
with th ...

Now
that President Obama has secured reelection, his landmark health care
reform law is here to stay. But that doesn’t stop Republican leaders in
Congress from continuing their crusade against Obamacare, which they
have already wasted over 80 hours and more than $50 million dollars
trying ...

On
Tuesday, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry released a report that mentions
diplomacy and negotiations with foreign powers as a potential solution
to the nuclear issue. The report, according to the Washington Post,
suggests “that the ministry has a pragmatic understanding of the
challenges the coun ...

thwap's schoolyard

Edward
Keenan has another good smashing of Toronto's embarrassment of a mayor,
Rob Ford, in this week's Grid TO:
On his radio show this past weekend—in the leadup to a contentious
casino proposal at City Hall—Mayor Rob Ford said he’d welcome a gambling
palace in Toronto, and justified the decis ...

The thing is, for the past 15 years or so, a big part of my real-world
thinking and writing has been on using our present parliamentary system
of representative democracy/constitutional monarchy/whatever you want to
call our quasi-democratic-part-time-rule-of-law system, to
constitutionally e ...

Given
his penchant for spending billions of dollars to harass us while
failing to provide the "security" the billions were ostensibly spent on,
d'you think harper could move himself to provide $79 million for Haiti?

Robert
Reich asks it in a fairly reasonable essay:
What’s going on? Yes, we’re divided over issues like the size of
government and whether women should have control over their bodies. But
these aren’t exactly new debates. We’ve been disagreeing over the size
and role of government since Thoma ...

So,
the Globe & Mail paid lots of young 'uns to hand out special US
election editions of their paper. (Paid for with help from the fine
people at Nissan!) So, right from the start I'm thinking that one reason
I don't buy the Globe is because they don't have the sense to know that
this is one ...

Digital Journal

Marineland's
owner John Holer has gone on the defensive following several recent
reports from former trainers and conservation groups alleging the
park's animals were kept in deplorable conditions. Holer is pursuing
legal action against those involved.

A
Digital Journalist since 2009, Andrew Moran isn't your average
24-year-old man: He listens to radio plays from the '40s, regularly
reads books on economics, and follows politics like a grizzled Reuters
reporter. This is his story.

The
neck-to-neck opinion polls prior to election night was certainly
engaging, as the results started pouring in there was no doubt that
Barak Obama would be back in Oval Office for the second term as U.S
President.

As
Canada's sixth largest city, there are many reasons Mississauga
continues to be in the spot light. Home to one of the longest serving
mayors in urban history, booming infrastructure and a growing
population, shifting changes are plain to see.

With
a few days until Remembrance Day, the Bank of Canada announced the new
$20 polymer bank note that goes into circulation Wednesday. The new
bill honours the nation's military men and women and the back features
the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

End Homelessness | Change.org

Fulfilling
the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday
season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a
new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way
to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe
an ...

This
Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest
feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful
for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way.
Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we
have ...

What
are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or
they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning
and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling:
Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan
is the site of 50 to 100 ...

Instead
of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it
illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a
one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do
something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar
high ...

Despite
its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the
homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people
living there.
In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged
at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Remembrance
Day is changing as the veterans of the First and Second World Wars, and
the Korean War, pass away. More attention is being paid to current and
more controversial conflicts, such as those in Afghanistan and Libya.
Remembrance Day was first marked within the British Commonwealth (which
...

Kevin Trudeau Show

April
2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The US Ambassador is lying.”
–KTRN According to Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Kabul, if
the United States does not continue to occupy Afghanistan, al Qaeda
would be able to plan and carry out another September 11, 2001- ...

April
5, 2012 Info Wars By Jonathan Benson “Here is more evidence that
demonstrates how vaccines are causing autism in children.” –KTRN The
rate of autism among American children has nearly doubled over the past
decade, according to a new report released by the U.S. Centers for ...

April
5, 2012 United Republic By UP “Big pharma’s #1 goal is to make money –
they are not interested in making you well and healthy – in fact they
want you sick and diseased so you buy more of their drugs.” –KTRN
Investing is a time-honored American tradition. ...

April
5, 2012 Natural Society By Anthony Gucciardi “Talk about corruption.”
–KTRN Is tainting food with mercury a crime? Apparently only if you’re a
citizens and not a major corporation or a United States government
agency. One retired pharmacist was rightfully arrested after c ...

April
5, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “It serves them right for
trying to sell us tainted and dangerous food.” –KTRN AFA Foods, a
leading American processor of ground beef, has filed for bankruptcy,
citing the wave of negative media coverage surrounding their so-called
...

Armies of Liberation

On
Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges
to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER
is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal
role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...

High
risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests
continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in
Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable
and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a
video clip dee ...

Without
much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its
defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for
licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012
Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (I ...

Several
children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda
fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action
Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC
said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June
13 ...

Al
Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless
the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing
prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,”
Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to
use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comVoter Turnout
Plunges Throughout the Western World … Largely Due to Political
Corruption By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Less People Voted than
in 2004 or 2008 AP notes: Preliminary figures suggest fewer peop ...

Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice
Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Mirah Riben Ill tell you what [we] really
need to do with these illegitimate families on welfare ” give all the
kids up for adoption and execute the parents. This is the ...

Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAlex Pappas Daily
Caller November 8, 2012 Conservative leaders are steaming that
Republicans failed to make President Obama a one-term president and are
criticizing Mitt Romney for not pursuing a conservative enough agen ...

Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story NEW
YORK ” A snowstorm left tens of thousands more people without power in
the New York region Thursday, slowing efforts to overcome the
devastation caused by last week’s superstorm Sandy. Th ...

Dandelion Salad

Dandelion
Salad I find this quite disturbing. by Emily Valdez fox8.com Nov. 7,
2012 The Cleveland home of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was ransacked
and burglarized sometime over the weekend. “You know, it’s just
disappointing at the least and a little bit shocking,” Kucinich said.
The intruder ...

Dandelion
Salad Reposting in case you missed it or would like to view it again.
Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror
of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. [...]
Sub-headed “Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist democracy”, this
fil ...

Dandelion
Salad Nov 7, 2012 by breakingtheset Abby Martin speaks to Justice Party
Presidential Candidate, Rocky Anderson, about how we [are] changing the
way we vote and building a progressive base. Justice Party’s Rocky
Anderson: Change the Way We Vote| Think Tank see Dennis Kucinich ...

Dandelion
Salad Nov 7, 2012 by democracynow During Democracy Now!’s seven-hour
election special last night, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill asks
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich about the secret drone war that has expanded
under President Obama’s first term and the killing of Anwar al ...

Dandelion
Salad with Ralph Nader Nov 7, 2012 by TheRealNews Ralph Nader: Time for
a broad coalition to push Congress towards policy that most Americans
can agree. Nader on What To do Now see Ralph Nader: Both Parties, Two
Heads of Same Corporate Beast Ralph Nader: Obama–Prosecutor, Judge,
Jury, ...

Your New Reality

Only
A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World
A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent :
It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter
Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the
king-makers to the pol ...

This
man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to
happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to
get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious
mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no
role in t ...

Tupac Rises
Well, fuck me....
From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable.
How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums?
I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...

Wired - Science

Astronomers
using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a pair of stars
orbiting each other at the centre of one of the most remarkable examples
of a planetary nebula. The new result confirms a long-debated theory
about what controls the spectacular and symmetric appearance of the
material ...

A
newly discovered exoplanet joins the small but growing list of worlds
other than our own that may host life. The exoplanet is a super-Earth,
having about seven times the mass of our home planet, but orbits its
parent star at roughly the same distance as Earth does from the sun. The
star, HD 40 ...

The
stench of a large hog farm may seem nauseating, but a study now
suggests that hog farm emissions—which include dust, irritants,
allergens, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and hundreds of volatile organic
compounds—could have a measurable impact on human health. Neighbors of
such farms experience ...

The next four years will give America to a chance to shape, for better
or worse, a host of vitally important scientific, medical and
environmental issues. Here is some of what we'll be arguing over -- and
hopefully figuring out -- in years to come.

Israeli Occupation Archive

Even
a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be
under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes
more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian la ...

Bedouin
tribe writing the Ottoman Sultan in 1890: "Lately, the supreme
government has sold the place to certain people of the land. We did not
protest since the new owners of the land clearly knew...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lan ...

The
West Bank is under the effective control of Israel. Israel acquired
this control through a military campaign and maintains it through
military force. Even those who hold that Israel has "a claim...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian l ...

Is
Israel preparing to annex Area C, as a growing number of analysts have
recently been speculating? This week, on a visit to the Israel’s
tourism bureau in Nazareth, Jonathan Cook came across an...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lan ...

The
truth, as I wrote in the news piece, is different: "Just" 33 percent of
the respondents said they don't want Arabs to vote in parliamentary
elections, "just" 42 percent wouldn't want an Arab...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands ...

Ukrainian
gas turbine maker Motor Sich plans to produce its own six-ton class
medical evacuation helicopter within five years, the company's Deputy
General Director Vladimir Semyonov said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

*
Kidney specialists do not routinely receive formal education on how to
talk with patients about end-of-life and other serious issues.
* A new workshop helps nephrology fellows be prepared to deliver bad
news, express empathy, and discuss dialysis initiation and withdrawal.

* Most patients with a leading cause of kidney failure, have high levels of suPAR circulating in their blood.
* suPAR levels could help doctors monitor the disease's progression as well as patients' response to different therapies.
* suPAR might be a therapeutic target of future treatments.

Eating
mindfully, or consuming food in response to physical cues of hunger and
fullness, is just as effective as adhering to nutrition-based
guidelines in reducing weight and blood sugar levels in adults with Type
2 diabetes, a new study suggests.

Natural Health News

Bird
Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of
mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to
cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it
was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to
manipulate the vi ...

Climategate

Dean
of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100
metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these
are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on
best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com

What
are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in
science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK
today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time.
So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence
does not become the “ ...

Opinio Juris

by
David Stewart
by David Stewart [David P. Stewart is a Visiting Professor of Law at
Georgetown University Law Center] Duncan Hollis deserves hearty
congratulations on the publication of the Oxford Guide to Treaties.
There’s no doubt that it will quickly become the essential reference for
la ...

by
Jessica Dorsey
by Jessica Dorsey The Atlantic has a piece on the foreign policy
priorities of Obama’s second term. Shortly after Obama’s re-election,
the US has supported a call in the UNGA’s Disarmament Committee to
revive talks on an Arms Trade Treaty. Other reactions to ...

by
Duncan Hollis
by Duncan Hollis I’m extraordinarily pleased to be able to announce that
today marks the start of the Opinio Juris symposium on my
recently-edited volume, The Oxford Guide to Treaties (you can buy your
copy here and there’s even a discount for Opinio Juris readers! ...

by
Jessica Dorsey
by Jessica Dorsey In a roundup of some of the big news coming out of the
US elections, President Barack Obama was elected to serve a second
term, the Republicans have kept control of the House of Representatives
and the Democrats still control the Senate, Maine and Maryland h ...

by
Kristen Boon
by Kristen Boon This week, state delegates to the Sixth (Legal)
Committee of the UN have been debating the most politically sensitive
topic of the latest International Law Commission‘s (ILC) report: Head of
State Immunity from criminal jurisdiction. The topic is sensitive for s
...

Did
Climate Change Make Sandy Worse? PHOENIX - Climate scientists say
global climate change could have contributed to Hurricane Sandy's
impact, although some political leaders are unconvinced. Robert Henson
is a meteorologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and
the author of "T ...

Arizona
Hunters Take Aim at Being Heart Smart PHOENIX - Deer season is underway
in Arizona, and the American Heart Association is encouraging hunters
who are spreading out across the state to be "heart smart." Dr. Bob
Oatfield, cardiologist with St. Alexis Medical Center, says the activity
can b ...

Breast
Cancer is Not Just an Issue for Women PHOENIX - Tom Retzack is a man's
man, a sports official who puts on the stripes and blows the whistle at
football, basketball, and baseball games.
Retzack also is a breast cancer survivor, who will soon pass the
nine-year mark since his first diagnos ...

Media
Debate: More Newsrooms Avoid “Illegal Immigrants” PHOENIX, Ariz. -
Adjective or adverb? More newsrooms are debating how best to use the
word "illegal" when referring to residents who did not move to the U.S.
with proper documentation. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

Yesterday,
California voters narrowly turned down Proposition 37, which, if
passed, would have required the labeling of genetically engineered (GE)
foods in the state. While late polls showed the initiative losing in the
double digits, Prop 37 failed by a 6-point margin. A full 47 percent of
Cal ...

By
Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the
various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major
newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse
your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods
produced using gen ...

by
Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has
been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the
public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as
the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high
fructos ...

By
Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of
the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” –
filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and
several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media
uproar and consumer ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

Posting
your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you
can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive
either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have
got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these
sell ...

House Hopping
Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young
individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet
prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt
by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of
control ...

Buying Property
In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to
do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to
have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can
view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...

Real Estate Investing Myths
Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest.
Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does
not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are
co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Pensieve

We
inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the
coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far.
But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live
in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit
chaos. Just l ...

Maybe
Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the
iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the
new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand,
is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...

I’ve
been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me
anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in
the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I
haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...]
Relate ...

I
had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since
even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently
forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico,
and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are
classier than any ...

Green Times

Last
week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull!
''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services
found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some
circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for
conservation of smal ...

Environmental
News You Shouldn't Miss
Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend
The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm
hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the
metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with
rain an ...

Today
is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that?
Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment
Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j
q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA
url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...

Environmental
News You Shouldn't Miss
Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale
National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part
of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to
ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...

Last
week, The Age website
(http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html)
published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo
rampage in Poland.
Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

We
have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics
were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays.
There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t
worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...

…but
they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax.
These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out
racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no
uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer
...

Beyond
everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot
that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of,
standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only
a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s
...

The
Hibakusha Peace Boat Project
The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative
that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give
personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...

We
continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian
residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on
their ancestral lands which they legally own.
One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request
would be guaranteed beyond do ...

The
2012 presidential race bears no trace of Occupy or the militancy it
spawned among Chicago teachers and Wal Mart workers. This is no accident
— the U.S. political system is a machine, and this machine smothers
militancy. The ugly inner workings of the Democratic part of that
machine wer ...

ReVIVE
Solar power battery pack with one solar panelAdd-on solar panelsThe
ReVIVE solar power battery pack has a 4000 mAh battery, universal USB
charging port, suction mounts for windows, charges at a max rate of 2.1
amps, and has a flashlight. It will keep most smart phones and portable
devices ...

Aaron
Ridgeway, Director of Apple’s Security Division, spends most of his
time suppressing leaks about iterations of the same old products.It’s
not amazing.Neither is Apple. Not anymore. Under pressure from
dividend-hungry shareholders and a never ending plague of intellectual
property law ...

Election
2012 probably doesn’t prove anything. But it provides some evidence for
the hopeful proposition that even when the game is rigged, the cheaters
lose. Elections have consequences. MONEY. Even though the Supreme
Court’s Citizens United decision allowed gross amounts of money (almost
...

As
Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s
campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders
gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central
talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...

On
December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview
with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview
was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a
political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No
...

Breaking
the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier
testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010.
The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If
you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of
the int ...

This
Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly
badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir
Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in
March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner
registers an ...

Deadline Live

Chris
Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT
CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison
water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The
same director made “What in the world are the Spraying&#822 ...

What
were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012!
The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting
by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left.
The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...

What
does the Social Security Administration National weather service need
with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back
could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is
banned or highly restricted / regulated. By the time regular folks
find out it will ...

The Air Vent

The
media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when
a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to
the left, the media reactions are universal. Ignore it! This time they
have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation
...

Michael
Mann has decided to sue for defamation because someone compared him to
Sandusky. Besides the general disgust for the Penn State sexual
scandal, there was a certain irony for me in that brought about an
article discussing what is a solidly apparent cultural deficiency in the
university ...

PROPOSAL
12-3 A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD
FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY This proposal would: Require electric utilities to
provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from
renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and
hydropower, ...

I
am tired of politics but in the recent debate a topic which I have
frequently discussed here took center stage. Taxation of private
business in America. Recently, I was critiqued by several readers for
making the exact same points that were stated by Romney and Obama. Those
unknown wealthy peo ...

Focal Point

Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summ ...

Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summer ...

Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summer ...

Hey,
Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The
Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation.
George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against
smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the
...

Hey,
Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The
Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation.
George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against
smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the
. ...

Inside Facebook

Barack
Obama is this week’s top gainer in the People Talking About This metric
among politician pages. With 3,586,328 engagements this week and
growing, the Obama campaign found itself far ahead of the Romney
campaign just in time for the election. … Continue reading →

An
AppData analysis of Facebook app usage shows Barack Obama’s and Mitt
Romney’s Facebook stores and donation apps have equal reach this month,
but more people are using the Obama 2012 app than “Commit to Mitt” and
similar apps on Romney’s … Continue reading & ...

Once
again, Facebook is prompting users to share that they voted, though
this year the social network has introduced a mobile component and a
real-time map of voters. Most voting-age Facebook users in the U.S. were
met with a module … Continue reading →

Facebook
today released an update for iOS that introduces support for Facebook
Gifts and brings key features of its standalone Camera and Messenger
apps to the main app. Users in the U.S. who already have access to
Facebook Gifts will … Continue reading →

The
Facebook Exchange is one of the newest ways for a business to market to
potential customers. Done through a select group of third party
advertising companies, the Facebook Exchange has been found to be one of
the most cost-efficient … Continue reading →

ReDress News

Stuart
Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical
charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven
groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.

Redress
Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now
on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in
the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from
our old website to the new one.

Alan
Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad
enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term
without the president’s blessing and American participation.

Nureddin
Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the
climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims".
But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent
protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring
Arabs and M ...

Lawrence
Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence
of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United
States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American
leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies
and behav ...

Amazon Rainforest

Thousands
of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital
in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed
by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who
wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert
...

The
Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be
voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main
environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia,
which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking
the Pr ...

Spanish
energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel
cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the
River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the
protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by
fo ...

The
group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and
Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured
to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to
experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and
creative way.&#8 ...

Loggers
in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last
uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to
force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Frank
Sinatra- “You Make Me Feel So Young” This week’s Soothing the Beast
BFP/Jamiol music pick is a dedication. I’m dedicating this to my much
better half for her Birthday this Sunday. She loves Sinatra and this is
her favorite Sinatra song. So Linda, this one’s for you… ...

The
Boiling Frogs Show Presents Pepe Escobar Our favorite globetrotting
investigative reporter, Pepe Escobar, joins us in-studio for the first
time, and shares his encyclopedic knowledge on many issues. We largely
focus on Iran, which was mentioned 45 times by the candidates, and
Romney’s “me-to ...

“Every
time Americans vote it is a vote for their own obliteration” God help
them if Obama and Romney ever had to participate in a real debate about a
real issue at the Oxford Union. They would be massacred. The “debates”
revealed that not only the candidates but also the entire country is
compl ...

Please
help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or
fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their
advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct
support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you
for all you do: Supp ...

“Pipelines,
Politics, and People” with Steve Horn “A century ago, oil was just an
obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as
water.” – James Buchanan There are countless factors that contribute to
the geopolitical reality of today’s world. None are more infl ...

Afro Spear

For
the second time in four years, I did NOT vote for the anointed, black
messiah. I never considered it; what I did consider, yet again, was my
residence in a country full of black, white, red and yellow people who
would vote for him – or his opposite – and trying to justify it?! [...]

This
documentary by Tony Harris takes an indepth look at the failure of the
educational system, particularly for Black males and uses Baltimore’s
inner city as the backdrop to address cartain issues. I found it rather
fascinating that some of the issues he discusses are similar to the ones
...

This
is so deep I had to share it! Ok, Let’s do a little exercise in
contextualizing. Imagine if: There was a caucasian relocation program
specifically targetting caucasians to remove them from the areas where
Indigenous peoples lived and where they desired to make a profit from
the trees, ...

Expose the BNP

Over
the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden
and racist deportations of Roma people from France.
Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim
communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against
anti-fascists.
November 6 sees a na ...

A
BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his
employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having
stood as a candidate in last month’s election.
Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham
Council but has managed to keep hi ...

The
British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the
general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for
the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the
seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the
Conservative cand ...

On
the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP
has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader,
the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic
Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past.
1. In which year did you stop den ...

On
yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio
Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this
country.”
The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991.
Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we
...

Ode Magazine

A
search for the healing power of sound
I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings
along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath,
and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection
in Amsterdam ...

What
my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of
capitalism
As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara
sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often
enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...

In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean
water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover
that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights
on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...

Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2
exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a
summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people
who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...

Celebrating
the return of the bald eagle
In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams
are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in
the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter,
as the ...

Massachusetts
voters passed the Budget for All referendum, calling for no cuts to
Social Security, Medicare, or other vital programs; investment in useful
jobs; an end to corporate tax loopholes and to the Bush cuts on taxes
on high incomes; withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan now; and re
...

We
are all valuable, equally. Regardless of race, religion, sex, ability
or orientation, not one of us is more valuable than the other. I believe
that once we become comfortable and aware of that fact, once we are
fully willing to see it as true of ourselves and others, we will be
better equippe ...

Switchboard

Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco
Every holiday season, it’s a struggle to not start
drooling when walking down the aisles of a grocery store. You know the
feeling—food magazines tempting you with stunning, mouthw ...

Morgan Wyenn, Project Attorney, Santa Monica
Last night there was another public hearing overflowing
with community members wanting to speak out about the proposed rail yard
project known as the “SCIG”—the Southern California Inter ...

Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC
There are two major pillars that help the chemical
industry wield power in Washington and in state capitols around the
country. First, of course, is money. A recent report by Common ...

Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency
Policy, San Francisco
Californians looking for ways to save energy in the New
Year will be glad to learn that the California Public Utilities
Commission today unanimously approved a suite of ener ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

Supplying
some much needed context for discussions of military spending in Asia:
The increase in absolute defense spending in Asia obscures an important
truth, however; despite the increases, the economies of East and South
Asia remain relatively demilitarized in comparison to the Cold War. Apar
...

Larison
actually has a good and important point to make here, but I’m not sure
why feels compelled to spoil it by saying something this silly. Here
he is, responding to George Will’s banal claim that the American
electorate “has reelected the most liberal president since Lynd ...

I
have a piece in Salon on the Obama administration’s pending decision
regarding what to do about the fact that Colorado and Washington have
legalized marijuana. In my view the importance of the fact that two
states — one of them much more mauve than blue — decided to begin to
...

I can
strongly endorse this position: However, for me, I’m choosing another
rather unique path; a personal boycott, if you will. Starting early this
morning, I am going to un-friend every single individual on Facebook
who voted for Obama, or I even suspect may have Democrat leanings. I wil
...

Desert Research Institute

Meet
Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences
graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of
wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.

DRI
will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and
molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant
genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event
scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.

The
Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have
worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have
led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water
quality and the health of the forest.

The
2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research
Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods
used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.

National Law Journal | U.S.

John
Laborde, former head of offshore service vessel company Tidewater
Marine Inc., donated $2 million to the Louisiana State University Paul
M. Herbert Law Center. The money will fund an endowed chair and support
the new LSU John P. Laborde Energy Law Center.

The
results of a survey The National Law Journal sent to leaders at firms
with fewer than 400 attorneys showed that most firms of that size
planned to add lawyers--although not many--to their practices. They also
expected higher profits per partner.

Debate
about whether the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision renders
unconstitutional a Massachusetts restriction on speech within 35 feet
of abortion clinics reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit on November 7.

Winners
like Morgan, Lewis & Bockius appellate litigation partner Ted Cruz,
who ran for the U.S. Senate in Texas, were offset by losers like former
Republican Governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson, who stepped down as
health care partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in January
to also run ...

Stanford
Law School students and faculty celebrated onelection night, after
years of hard work paid off when California voters overwhelmingly
approved Proposition 36, which reforms the state's tough "three strikes"
sentencing law.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

The
Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental
groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents
of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The
training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive,
Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

Since
I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north
central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I
frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF
radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]

I
happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings
Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link.
http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has
put together a section of their website to answer questions or help
folks who are c ...

I
thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that
passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will
no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling
pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as
schools, ...

From
the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in
natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania
. Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity.
Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be
expected ...

At
Washington DC today, Acting Spokesperson Mark C. Toner says the United
States is deeply concerned about the Republic of South Sudan's decision
to order a Human Rights Officer working for the United Nations Mission
in South Sudan (UNMISS)

Ms.
Rice notes that Zakir is an operational commander who has been involved
in many of the Haqqani Network's highest-profile suicide attacks and
has trained individuals to use small arms, heavy weapons and improvised
explosive devices (IEDs).

environment 360

Given
the failure of international climate negotiations, an Oxford University
economist says a carbon consumption tax would be the most effective way
of lowering CO2 emissions. If countries are serious about addressing
climate change, he argues, then they must pay for the carbon pollution
they c ...

International
talks to protect large areas of the Southern Ocean surrounding
Antarctica collapsed last week after several nations, including China,
blocked the proposal over concerns about fishing access, according to
reports. Representatives from 25 member states — including China,
Russia, the ...

Some
mountain meadows in the U.S. Northwest are steadily disappearing as the
effects of climate change have allowed trees to invade the ecosystemsin
recent decades, a new study says. In an analysis of Jefferson
Click to enlarge
Oregon State University
A meadow at the base of Mount Jefferso ...

As
the storm that was Hurricane Sandy weakened over Pennsylvania, NASA
released a timelapse animation of the lifespan of the massive storm,
tracking its path from
NASAVIDEO: The path of Sandy the Caribbean, where it developed, to its
violent landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. The ...

Since 2007, photographer James Balog has deployed dozens of time-lapse
cameras on four continents to chronicle one of the starkest examples of
global warming — the rapid melting of the world’s glaciers. That
project, known as the Extreme Ice Survey and carried out in
collaboration wit ...

Red Ice Creations

Thousands
of people gathered in Trafalgar square on the 5th of November before
marching to Parliament in a reenactment of the iconic scene in V for
Vendetta.
The protest, organised by international hacktivism collective,
Anonymous, was intended to warn the government about a number of issues
inc ...

Czech
archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic
princess south of Cairo, in a finding that suggests other undiscovered
tombs may be in the area, an official from Egypt’s antiquities ministry
said Saturday. Mohammed El-Bialy, who heads the Egyptian and Greco-Roman
Antiq ...

Victims
tell of horror inside North Wales care home where gang rape, strip
searches and vicious canings were a way of life... and Jimmy Savile was a
regular visitor DailyMail.co.uk Keith Gregory was just 11-years-old
when he was taken away from his parents in the 1970s to Bryn Estyn
children’s h ...

You’re
walking along in a hurry to get to work. Around you are the same gray,
noisy, impersonal parts of the city you pass every day. Then something
catches your eye. At first, you dismiss it as a piece of litter, or
maybe a toy some kid has dropped. But something about it makes you take a
secon ...

Vast
social revolutions and wars are often preceded by periods of giving up
on reforms, despairing withdrawal from public life by the best and
brightest, and even peacefulness which seems to have become the normal
condition in spite of deep conflicts and growing crises beneath the
surfaces of pu ...

Russia Today

A Bahraini court has once again adjourned the appellate trial of human
rights activist Nabeel Rajab. The court also denied a petition filed by
Rajab’s lawyers, which was designed to question the legality of the
law...
Read Full Article at RT.com

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at the
record-shattering cost of this year's US presidential election, deriding
the self-declared “forerunners of democracy” of the Western world.
Read Full Article at RT.com

The Syrian conflict is exponentially more complicated than portrayed in
the press – and as for President Bashar Assad, he is a well-educated
man who has fallen victim to media demonization, says RT’s Sophie
Shevardnadze.
Read Full Article at RT.com

Astronomers have discovered another potentially habitable planet – and
it’s at least seven times the mass of Earth. Dwarf star HD 40307g hosts a
system of six planets, and one of those is believed have the potential
to...
Read Full Article at RT.com

Iran is banning the import of foreign-made cars, laptops, and other
"luxury" goods in the hope of saving billions of dollars in hard
currency, claims a report published by the state-owned IRAN daily.
Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

By
my clock it is just minutes away from 4 pm the day after the national
election, however in Florida all the national election reporting sites
say that it is still too close to call yet in Florida! How can that be,
as 100% of the votes have been supposedly tabulated and there is a [...]

In
the US amongst pacifist Christian liberals, Gandhi is considered to be
the son of Jesus almost. The following is a brief look at this mindset
which is brewed in India itself by the Hindu Right Wing politicians
governing there. —An Interview With Perry Anderson on "The Indian
Ideolog ...

Tens
of thousands outside The Greek parliament in Athens demand that the
capitalists suffer the ‘austerity’, and not the working class. Meanwhile
in the US, the day after the pathetic ‘win’ by the Democratic Party
over their Republican Party co-callaborators FOR the capit ...

—
The American people will have wasted another one of our days in The
Land of Corporate Dictatorship. Yes, ‘your’ USA is run by the collective
Walmarts, Bank of Americas, KFCs, Lockheeds, and et al Corporation that
makes up our nobility, Serf People. Have a Nice Day if you can ...

Dear
Michael, I write you as a longtime, enthusiastic fan, and please pardon
me if the deference and affection I’d like to convey have been overcome
by my shock at your recent emails. My question may sound rhetorical,
but I would really like to know: what the hell compels you to shill once
...

Debunking the Debunkers

A
video I made back in 2009. Send this page to the White house! Maybe
without the fear of losing reelection due to tackling controversial
subjects, President Obama will be more inclined to reexamine things like
the 9/11 truth movement, wake up, and do something. An important update
on the first ...

PhD
Physicist Crockett Grabbe was recently published in the peer-reviewed
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, disputing the the pile-driver or
crush-down theory in which the tops of the Towers act as giant
sledgehammers put forward by engineer Zdenek Bazant. One reason I bring
this ...

Firefighters
for 9/11 Truth currently have 91 "Confirmed Firefighter Signatories" at
their site and Scientists for 9/11 Truth currently have "76 Active
Members." Let's help to give them an extra push to reach 100 members
each. This can be done in a variety of ways. When I lived in Erie PA, I
too ...

By Winston Wu of DebunkingSkeptics.com
happierabroad.com/Awakening.htm
Chinese version: http://www.happierabroad.com/Awakening-Chinese.htm
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"During times of universal deceit, telling the tru ...

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Tony Blair at UCL - no comeback for the war criminal
Tony Blair is back in town on the speaking circuit, this time helping to l ...

Traffikd

Twitter
management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling
you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to
pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you
are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything
...

When
was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It
is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you
started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as
time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals
[...]

Every
day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those
search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion.
Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches
performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and
provided to us ...

So
you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media
sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the
traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social
media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them
and turn them into ...

Twitter
recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly
impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people
give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a
star as fast bad ones can kill your image.
Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Greg Palast

A
special report by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Watch the Report
[Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday November 6, 2012] Several thousand
African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left
uncounted, and they, and America, won’t know it––even if the lost votes
change the presidency. First, ...

Palast
Fund to give away FREE copies of Bestseller Billionaires & Ballot
Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps A personal note from
Greg Palast Call me crazy. The Palast Investigative Fund is dead broke
and our office in New York is under water. No kidding. But America is
drown ...

By
Greg Palast for The National Memo At the same time, taxpayer-subsidized
Delphi expanded its workforce in China to 25,000. Today, Delphi
supplies GM and Chrysler parts from Mexico and China. This week,
Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan arrived in Ohio to
accuse the Obama admi ...

Broke
ethics law hiding millions, say good government groups by Greg Palast
Toledo, Ohio For Mitt Romney, it's one scary Halloween. The
Presidential candidate has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will
charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by
improperly concealing hi ...

Unions,
Good Government Groups to File Ethics Complaint Against Romney For
Failing To Disclose His Big Auto Rescue Profit Groups Urge Office of
Government Ethics to Make Romney Disclose or Divest WASHINGTON – A
coalition of community, labor and good-government organizations is
calling on the U.S ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

There
was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend –
people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other
people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly
small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...

We’ve
had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass
blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house
and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an
old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...

(Hi!
Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve
been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting
any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and
laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...

Apologies
for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over
the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday!
Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from
Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...

Lyndon
has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters
(the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy
up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there
is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

By
Tony Bateson I believe mercury was the cause of my daughter's autism
resulting from a DTP shot in January 1964. Claire had a frightening
response to the jab and our General Practitioner sent Claire to hospital
where she stayed...

The
new head of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. James Perrin, calls
autism an epidemic. He really does. Perrin was the focus in an
interview just out from the Boston Globe: Pediatrics leader talks about
biggest issues facing kids....

Congratulations
to President Obama on winning a second term. Healthcare has been a
priority for him. Will the President acknowledge the grim side of the
ever rising childhood health epidemics including vaccine damage like
this adverse reaction to birth dose...

Farm Wars

The
WHO-funded Mosqguide project, which was supposed to be developing best
practice, also allowed the company to gain approval from Brazilian
regulators to release 16 million GM mosquitoes before draft regulations
on the release of GM insects had been finalised or adopted, without
publishing a r ...

Since
jumping genes are already a large part of our genome naturally, and
they are subject to mutation, which can lead to diseases such as cancer
and hemophaelia as well as antibiotic resistance, the introduction of
genetically engineered DNA into the mix is especially alarming.

Open Your Eyes News

Aljazeera
– Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s
claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to
organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest
against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...

NY
Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions
of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts
cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children
immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a
cut above the r ...

Al
Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US
drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border,
according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s
attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven
...

BBC
– Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people
were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister
Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the
attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...

A
truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the
psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on
YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views
on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive

L.A. Times - Greenspace

One
of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with
researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer
that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and
malleable than silicon.

Representatives
of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week
have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and
Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States,
Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the
Grenadines. Th ...

As
a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the
construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists
and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers is now ramming ...

The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations
Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle
pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina
McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and
Radiation, made ...

Diesel
engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the
exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization
(WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a
cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up
some dies ...

Millions
of us want to connect the charities we support to the celebrations we
share with friends online. Water.org is excited to be included in the
introduction of charitable giving through Facebook Gifts, the social
platform's recently launched product that enables real-time gift giving
throug ...

Water.org’s
local partner —BWDA — works directly with Self Help Groups (SHG) and
their individual members to provide loans for safe water access. In the
Pondicherry territory of India, BWDA works with women who are in need of
microloans for household water connections.

Maria
Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, talks to Oscar winner Matt Damon
and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, about the big bet they’re
making to bring clean water to the nearly 1 billion people without it.
Watch the interview.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

The
science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism?
Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company.
But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon
says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer
David Cayley b ...

Do
you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something
strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe
was from a source with an agenda to deceive?
Submitted by Ken D. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Aggressive
war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is
nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends,
rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop
this exported violence or we are screwed.
Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...

In
this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she
left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution,
holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell
window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in
Submitted by Maria V. to World |&nb ...

Palestinians
have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a
result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used
threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points
closed to tne settlements,
Submitted by Naoko I. to World | &nbs ...

At
Washington DC today, Acting Spokesperson Mark C. Toner says the United
States is deeply concerned about the Republic of South Sudan's decision
to order a Human Rights Officer working for the United Nations Mission
in South Sudan (UNMISS)

Ms.
Rice notes that Zakir is an operational commander who has been involved
in many of the Haqqani Network's highest-profile suicide attacks and
has trained individuals to use small arms, heavy weapons and improvised
explosive devices (IEDs).

Critically-acclaimed Scottish quintet Frightened Rabbit are pleased
to announce details of their eagerly-awaited fourth studio album
Pedestrian Verse, out February 4th through Atlantic Records. The
forthcoming release was recorded at the famed Monnow Valley Studio in
Rockfield, South Wales, ...

Related topics reality televisionAmerican IdolNicki MinajMariah
Carey Advertisement Rapper Nicki Minaj is the topic of a new report that
was published today. The "American Idol" judge was asked if she would
ever perform with Mariah Carey who is also a judge on the show. Minaj
was also asked ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) Jermaine Jackson wants to change his name to
something a little brighter. He's asking a court to allow him to alter
his famous surname and become Jermaine Jacksun. The older brother of
Michael Jackson filed a name change petition on Tuesday in Los Angeles,
stating the switch ...

BEIJING: Preparing to hand over power after a decade in office,
China’s President Hu Jintao called Thursday for sterner measures to
combat official corruption that has stoked public anger while urging the
Communist Party to maintain firm political control. In a 90-minute
speech opening a w ...

Ivan
Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by
the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart
any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy

Taped
interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying
numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report
includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case
of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

Startup PredictGaze thinks technology that can determine where
you’re looking—and what you look like—is the
interface of the future.
Ketan Banjara’s living room isn’t cluttered with
remote controls. To shush the music, he simply holds a finger up to
his lips. And wh ...

Common Dreams

NEW
YORK - The concept of degrowth is not a very comfortable one in
overdeveloped countries such as the United States.
But with the planet’s resources stretched to the limit, many argue that
an action plan is needed to prevent the world’s largest economy from
getting any bigger, espe ...

In
the largest rally since last August, nearly 100,000 protestors crowded
Athens' central square Wednesday as parliament met to vote on the
lastest round of crippling tax hikes, spending cuts and labor reform.
Al Jazeera reports that the protestors stared down parliament guards as
they carri ...

American
flag makers in Pakistan are likely to benefit from US President Barack
Obama's reelection this year, as mass protests over Obama's drone policy
are likely to increase along with the demand for American flags to
burn, Agence-France Presse reported Wednesday.
...

"This
is probably not a very good morning for Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu,” Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai said Wednesday.
Netanyahu and his Likud Party had actively supported Mitt Romney and
Paul Ryan in what Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz described as “
...

In
a victory for unions and grassroots organizers, Michigan voters
rejected the controversial Emergency Manager Law or Public Act 4 of 2011
which bequeathed a state-appointed manager with sweeping powers
including the ability to get rid of union contracts, dissolve local
governments, sell public ...

Energy Collective

Last
week, I gave a talk called Financial Issues Affecting Energy Security
at the Advances in Energy Studies conference in Mumbai, India. The
general topic of the conference was, “Energy Security and
Development-The Changing Global Context.”

Energy
issues figured prominently in this election. Candidates mentioned it
frequently on the stump and it was among the top three topics discussed
in campaign ads. Yet despite the dirty ad blitzes and the
anti-environmental policy proposals, voters rejected this outdated
vision for our country.

As
Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast last week, meteorologists and
climate scientists were repeatedly asked to explain what role climate
change played in amplifying the storm. Overall, we know that climate
change has stacked the deck so that this kind of event happens more
frequently. That ...

Economic
growth is front and center in this presidential election, but the two
candidates haven’t spent much time talking about two of the most
important drivers of the economy: science and technology. Science is not
only at the root of our increasing prosperity but it is also the best
tool we h ...

Green House - USA Today

How
badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows
users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and
heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.

What's
a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then
find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain
dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost
toxic-free.

Peoples Voice

by
Stephen Lendman
The same party wins every time. Duopoly power rules. America is a one
party state with two wings. Each replicates the other. On major issues
mattering most, not a dime's worth of difference separates them.
The late Gore Vidal explained it as well as anyone. Some of his ...

by
chycho
The big news from last night is not that the lesser of two evils won the
US presidential elections, but that “Washington and Colorado voters
legalized recreational use of marijuana.”
“’It’s very monumental,’ said Allen St. Pierre, executive direct ...

by
Stephen Lendman
"Well, he might have," said Mark Crispin Miller on his blog site. He
doesn't know. Nor do other voters. Corporate owned, programmed and
manipulated electronic voting machines control things.
The Carter Center monitors elections globally. It refuses to do so in
America ...

David
H. Marshall
It is the responsibility of the U.S. Congress, "To make Rules for the
Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces"; U.S.
Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 14.
The Congressional Oath of Office:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defen ...

Michael
Collins
(Washington, DC) Our elections are officially privatized. They are
hidden from our view by design.
On November 6, your votes will be cast and tallied on voting machines
manufactured and serviced by private companies. The computerized voting
machines run on software that is ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

In
Alberta and British Columbia, liquor retail privatization has meant
higher liquor prices but lower government revenue. Moreover, the
increased availability of alcohol brought on by privatization and its
lax regulation contravene recognized methods for protecting public
health. In light of Pre ...

As
the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive
Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits
are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized
and even ignored. CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job
loss ...

The
Fall 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between
education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised
before, during and since the Québec student strike.
The strike provides us with a superb case study of how the Charest
government labeled student resistanc ...

In
a new CCPA-Ontario report, Jordan Brennan looks at the history of the
minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and makes the case for a living
wage as an essential tool to help reduce income inequality. The report,
Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice: The
Living Wa ...

World Wide Hippies

by John
Konopak, Ph.D. (LSU, 1989, Education) WWH/CJE
+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ Critical Thinking:
All parents would claim they want their kids to think critically…Just
not til the little bastids leave home! Probably the one person who has
had the greatest ...

By
Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – No more ads, no more calls no more trees
chopped down for the tons of campaign literature! I am grateful. Yes, I
AM happy that the Prez won reelection. I am also THRILLED that so many
fine women won their races and that, so many knuckle dragging,
misogynisti ...

SANDY-TORN
NORTHEAST DEALS WITH MORE WIND, WATER Great cover for Bloombergs racist
handling of sandy. NEW YORK (AP) – The nor’easter, as promised, brought
gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding. It menaced
travelers with icy roads, snarled the Long Island Rail Road and ...

GAY
MARRIAGE, MARIJUANA BACKED IN HISTORIC VOTES Altering the course of U.S
social policy, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve
same-sex marriage by popular vote, while Washington state and Colorado
set up a showdown with federal authorities by legalizing recreational
use of mar ...

FourWinds10

(NaturalNews)
Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen
working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of
Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year
is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh
water ...

Crisis Maven

The
Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever
known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this
article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in
around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with
these past weeks& ...

The
Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever
known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this
article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in
around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with
these past weeks& ...

As
you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative
thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service.
The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron
Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a
team of scienti ...

As
you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative
thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service.
The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron
Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a
team of scienti ...

Or:
Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli
archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around
800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic.
For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades
(and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

In
the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock
Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the
Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further
evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often
touted ...

The
trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US
economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation
will increase.
The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals
earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...

In
a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy
with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is
stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren
...

No
one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations.
In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102,
after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an
annual basis, were about $589.9 billion.
However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

First
thing, on this day after the U.S. presidential elections I would like
to congratulate President Obama on his reelection. My top prediction for
2012 – made nearly a year ago and reiterated many times since — was
that Obama would easily win reelection, primarily because all of th ...

When
Hurricane Sandy was forecast to make landfall on the East Coast, I
advised people to top off their automobiles with fuel. There were a
number of reasons for that, and some people in New York and New Jersey
are learning those reasons the hard way. When a hurricane hits an area,
it can damage ...

As
Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, a lot of prognosticators
are offering up predictions for what it means for gasoline prices in
that market. I thought it might be of interest to note the differences
in Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina concerning the oil and gas
markets. Hurri ...

In
this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier addresses the
recent claims of a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis that
they have invented a process to create fuel from air and water.

Comments:Digital
magazine from Stanford University highlights interesting and
challenging stories of innovation. Could be a great kick-starter for
project-based learning or to engage kids in innovative and critical
thinking. - Randy RodgersTags: innovation, social, stanford, nonprofit,
philanthr ...

Rodale News

No matter which presidential candidate you were rooting for, if you
care about food, you were probably watching California on Tuesday night.
There, organic food advocates were fighting one of the biggest, most
expensive campaigns in the country in support of a ballot measure that
would have led ...

Let's be real here. Chances are your neighbor's gotten on your nerves
at least once or twice. A power tool returned out of order, a messy
lawn, and moodiness are just a few reasons you may sometimes despise the
person living next door.
But things could definitely be worse. You could live next ...

In the hours before you head to the voting booth, instead of flicking
to your favorite cable news show for your latest fix of exit poll
numbers, turn off all of your devices and use some simple yoga tricks to
ease stress and promote a more honest vote. Using just three easy go-to
yoga moves wil ...

Regardless of your political affiliation or which issues you hold most
dear on Election Day, the one thing you can be assured of, if you vote,
is that you're saving the planet.
Energy analysts at Opower, an energy analytics firm that works with 80
utility companies to help their customers monit ...

As Americans on the East Coast continue to pick up the pieces left
behind in the wake of deadly Hurricane Sandy, many scientists and
residents are wondering if an unstable climate fueled this
out-of-the-ordinary megastorm.
While the timing of the hurricane isn't all that strange—late-October h
...

big think

What's
the Big Idea?
The Portland, Oregon-area activists known as Depaved do more than cut
through red tape in their communities. They use jackhammers to rip up
pieces of asphalt. This type of action is an example of DIY Urbanism, an
idea that combines urban theory with activism and tend ...

On
Tuesday, October 2 the lights in Sanaa went out.* The power cut in the
Yemeni capital wasn’t particularly surprising. Yemen has been
suffering rolling blackouts for years; a problem that only grew worse
during the 2011 uprisings that forced the country’s long-serving
president, Ali Abdullah ...

Article
written by guest writer Kecia Lynn
What's the Latest Development?
A study published today in the journal PLOS ONE reveals that climate
change will have a profoundly negative impact on wild Arabica plants,
which many see as key to the sustainability of the coffee industry. ...

Who
won big in last night's election? Data. Cold, hard data and the
analytical tools to interpret it. The Obama campaign won by leveraging
unbelievably detailed information about voters, as Michael Scherer
describes today. And those observers who did best at predicting what
voters would do (like ...

Article
written by guest writer Kecia Lynn
What's the Latest Development?
Now that President Barack Obama has been reelected, NASA is expected to
announce its plans for furthering human exploration of deep space,
starting with a mission to a location above the far side of the moo ...

Imagine
if people voted on what groceries to buy. Rather than go to the store
and pick out what you specifically want, everyone in the United States
decided every four years in massive elections what food everyone will be
forced to buy. What would ...

What
if someday an entire population was enlightened enough to withhold from
participating in their local elections? What would that day look like
and what would be the ramifications for everyone involved? Explore how
the people free themselves fro...

One
of my favourite movies is Mike Judge*s Office Space. For those who
haven*t seen it, I won*t spoil anything. The only reason I bring it up
is because there*s a scene where a character named Tom Smykowski is,
essentially, being interviewed for the ...

One
of the most destructive influences of "the State" upon society, is the
way it subverts responsibility.
In order to understand the nature of this subversion, one has to
understand what "the State" really is, and the irrational paradigm in
the ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

After
Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for
President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year.
If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has
racked up … Continue reading →

I’m
still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least
another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen
probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I
know … Continue reading →

I’m
swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be
some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement
at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing
much has changed in … Continue reading →

I’m
swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be
some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement
at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing
much has changed in … Continue reading →

I’m
so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the
glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster
system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do
with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

During
the last two decades, India has emerged as a leading player in clinical
trials, manufacturing and R&D of pharmaceuticals. Today, the Indian
pharmaceutical industry is growing rapidly and ranks third in the world
by volume sales (14th by value) amounting to US $20 billion with
forecas ...

Laws
of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should
operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated
by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in
or simply interested in research and development in the fields of
robotics ...

Laws
of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should
operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated
by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in
or simply interested in research and development in the fields of
robotics ...

There
is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some
companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads,
interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the
song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with
you, but if they can ...

There
is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some
companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads,
interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the
song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with
you, but if they can ...

Congressional
Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42814.pdf Due to the
growth in natural gas production, primarily from shale gas, the United
States is benefiting from some of the lowest prices for natural gas in
the world and faces the question of how to best use this resource. Di
...

University
of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
http://www.umich.edu/~umtriswt/EDI_sales-weighted-mpg.html [Michael
Sivak quoted on DotEarth] …The University of Michigan Eco-Driving Index
(EDI)–an index that estimates the average monthly emissions of
greenhouse gases generated by ...

Scientific American - News

Hearing
and seeing things that aren’t there is more common than you might
think. As part of their series Science & Story, our friends at the
World Science Festival are bringing together neurologist and
best-selling author Oliver Sacks and award-winning journalist John
Hockenberry to ...

VANCOUVER--"I
have a freezer full of dead rats," says Laurie Wein, project manager at
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in western Canada. It's a
necessary evil, for the restoration specialist leading Parks Canada's
war on rats in the biodiverse archipelago of Haida Gwaii (o ...

The
surprise magnitude-5.8 earthquake that stuck central Virginia and
rattled cities up and down the US East Coast last year was a
record-breaker in more ways than one. Not only was it felt by more
Americans than any previous tremor, it triggered landslides over a wider
area than any other recor ...

First Truths

Interesting
passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility
of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think
of the various lists referenced here:
This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been
attacked by a number of authors. ...

From
Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State:
However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing
functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the
tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the
overaccumulation and uneven d ...

Interesting
and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and
Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979):
It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor
writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their
conclusion regarding ...

From
Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that
anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal
critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or
"freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently
multifaceted and a ...

I
enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can
You!):
AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in
America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to
piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American
Soc ...

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now comments the issues of
the 99 per cent.
The clock races down to the fate US presidential elections. CKUT speaks
with independent journalist and author, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
about the issues that matter ...

This edition was produced by Michael Welch at CKUW in Winnipeg Manitoba.
Headlines:
In BC on October 22 and 24, over 7,000 people participated in the Defend our Coast actions across the province
PowerShift 2012 - a conference organized by youth for youth - took place last weekend in Ottawa foc ...

David Seaton's News Links

At
least the sinuous Romney isn't going to be president... At least the
first African-American president gets to serve two terms... At least the
Tea Party wont get to name any justices of the Supreme Court... and at
least a hundred "at leasts" that we might not even imagine till they
happened, b ...

Abbie has nailed it.... If anything defines the period we live in, it
is the sight of a nation of over 300M people, with historically
unsurpassed military and economic power in a state of sluggish
political and social paralysis... and managing to make such a crisis,
one so objectively earth ...

David
Seaton's News LinksReaders of mine should not be under the impression
that I am a big fan of Obama's or of the Democrats... I wrote this back
in 2008:I find myself against almost everything that the Republicans
stand for, but at least they seem to truly stand for what they say they s
...

David
Seaton's News Links
No matter what you may feel or think about Barack Obama, no matter how
disappointed you may be by his failure to live up to the promises he
made in 2008 or the hope he inspired four years ago; it is essential for
every progressively minded American to do what they can ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

Via Atrios, this is pretty funny:
"The billionaire donors I hear are livid," one Republican operative told
The Huffington Post. "There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a
lot of explaining to do ... I don't know how you tell your donors that
we spent $390 million and got nothing.".... ...

I am going to be a killjoy tonight. I have two things to say:
Liberals, you should rein in the triumphalism. Obama won a narrow 51-49
percent victory and the composition of Congress changed only slightly.
This was not a historic vindication of liberalism, and it doesn't mean
that we can sud ...

I know plenty of people have already said this, but the Senate is an
even more impressive story for Democrats than President Obama's
reelection last night. Just a few short months ago it was conventional
wisdom that Democrats would be lucky if they only lost three seats, and
might very well lo ...

House Speaker John Boehner lost no time getting in the first shot today
on taxes and the fiscal cliff, telling reporters that in order to forge a
bipartisan agreement Republicans are "willing to accept new revenue,
under the right conditions":
While Boehner suggested that Republicans would ...

One
more quick thing: before everyone starts getting too enthralled with
demographic time bombs and other in-the-weeds explanations for why Obama
won last night, just remember this: most of the political science
models, based on little more than a few economic fundamentals, predicted
a modest Ob ...

Insanity Report

Topics:
Kev gets White Boy Wasted Kriss & Rodimus decipher Kev’s drunk
tweets Can’t wait for the election to be over “I don’t see color”
Covering the election like sports The world won’t end on November 7th
Jamie Foxx as Electro George Lucas sells LucasFi ...

Topics:
Deodorant isn’t optional Stupid sayings like “there are no stupid
opinions” You’re entitled to your own opinion but it could be a stupid
opinion Losing builds character Gay Marriage and hiding behind religion
when you’re a bigot Black James Bond? Buying a vi ...

Topics:
People Asking Stupid Questions The real problem with Tyler Perry Movies
The election needs to end Liberals aren’t built for this Its not really
funny Movie News Deer Crossings Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

An
unstable balance between dry and wet monsoon rain seasons could become
important for farming in South Asia as the world warms into the 22nd
century, find Jacob Schewe and Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research.

Tiny
changes in climate simulations otherwise held constant can lead to a
wide range of outcomes, Clara Deser from the US National Center for
Atmospheric Research and her team find, showing uncertainty we can’t
eliminate.

Though
there is a modest link between conflict and rainfall and temperature
changes, this has been overplayed in political discussions, according to
a detailed analysis by John O’Loughlin from the University of Colorado,
Boulder and his team-mates.

A
PhD class from Stony Brook University in New York State has found that
difficulties in researching how climate wipes organisms out have left a
knowledge gap, and urges scientists to tackle these tough questions.

Not
knowing what greenhouse gas level climate catastrophe might happen at
undermines negotiations using emission limits alone, an experiment by
Scott Barrett and Astrid Dannenberg from the Earth Institute at Columbia
University suggests

e!Science News

Researchers
at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a radically
new design for a concentrator solar cell that, when irradiated from the
side, generates solar conversion efficiencies that rival, and may
eventually surpass, the most ultra-efficient photovoltaics.
read more

A
20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the
1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the former Soviet
territory of Ukraine shows that the workers share a significant
increased risk of developing leukemia. The results may help scientists
better define cancer ris ...

Slimy
layers of bacterial growth, known as biofilms, pose a significant
hazard in industrial and medical settings. Once established, biofilms
are very difficult to remove, and a great deal of research has gone into
figuring out how to prevent and eradicate them.
read more

A
mother's willingness to sacrifice her own health and safety for the
sake of her children is a common narrative across cultures -- and by no
means unique to humans alone. Female polar bears starve, dolphin mothers
stop sleeping and some spider moms give themselves as lunch for their
crawly babi ...

unEarthed

President must unite America to secure prosperity
and fight climate change
The American people have reinvested their faith in a President who now
has a second chance to put this nation on course to a prosperous future
built on clea ...

Brave New Climate

CSIRO
eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s
electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own
future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean
energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...

I’ve
never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s
no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of
my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile
pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...

I’m
currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a
delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24
Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by
Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...

Below
is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn
Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy
policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a
strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the
first year of ...

The
following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in
Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for
the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the
BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on
...

Indigenist Opinion

Posting
your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you
can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive
either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have
got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these
sell ...

House Hopping
Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young
individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet
prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt
by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of
control ...

Buying Property
In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to
do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to
have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can
view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...

Real Estate Investing Myths
Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest.
Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does
not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are
co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Republicans are a Disease

I
call Republicans Mother Fuckers because they support policies that fuck
their mothers, and their fathers, and their children, workers, and all
Americans that are not wealthy. After watching all the voter suppression
it is amazing some patriotic American doesn’t make things right and
give ...

For
some time Chris Hayes has been voicing his frustration with the fact
that neither of the presidential candidates, or any other politicians
have been loudly addressing climate change. As I watch “media” it seems
that he is the only one I follow regularly that keeps sounding the gl
...

I
ask, what are you doing to make sure The Republican Hoard of
Neanderthal zombies don’t get elected in your city, state, or sent to
D.C.? If you don’t understand the risk of 2-4 years of having
Republicans making your choices for you, think about it. We all know
once elected all Rep ...

Appalachia Rising

Donate
to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were
arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their
Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps
toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and …
Continue readi ...

PHILADELPHIA
– Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found
guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass
following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at
PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →

All
22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday.
However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July
for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue
reading →

On
Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and
protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1.
Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop
removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →

Amped Status

Cenk
Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth
and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This
is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We
have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not
engaged an ...

By David DeGraw
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
– Bob Dylan
For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the
spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since
we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...

Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a
caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in
"The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage
from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the
recent eco ...

+972

Mr.
Adelson, a friend and supporter of Prime Minister Netanyahu, poured
almost 100 million dollars into six Republican campaigns, but saw only
one of his candidates win. Sore losers: Israel Hayom, the free daily
paper owned and published by American gambling billionaire Sheldon
Adelson, didn&#8 ...

As
America celebrated the re-election of Barack Obama, it was business as
usual in Israeli-controlled Area C of the West Bank. At least two
Palestinian homes were demolished today. The residents’ ‘crime?’ They
didn’t have building permits, which are issued by Israel and a ...

Ehud
Olmert and Tzipi Livni can win the January 22 election. If there is
one loser in the U.S. election outside the U.S., it is Benjamin
Netanyahu – and all of Israel knows it. No one is fooled by his denials
that he backed Romney and opposed Obama as demonstratively as he
possibly could. ...

Israeli
meme artists have been particularly drawn to one particular aspect of
the U.S. elections: the alliance between Benjamin Netanyahu, Mitt Romney
and Sheldon Adelson. Here are some of our favorite memes that appeared
throughout election night and the morning after. > Click here for
+972 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Senator
Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban
Water, today joined Senator for Tasmania Carol Brown to announce the
Australian Government's $2.9 million funding contribution to the
Integrated Water Cycle Management Project at Nyrstar Hobart.

Matt Weidner Blog

LawReviewCle’s
Foreclosure Defense in America is an in-depth examination of the tools
you will need to build a successful foreclosure defense practice, along
with a detailed treatment of the emerging pleading, discovery, trial and
appellate strategies you need to achieve results for your c ...

After
voting for the National Defense Authorization Act last year, U.S. Rep.
Tom Rooney is taking a second look at some of its controversial
provisions. “People have raised concerns and he’s looking into it,” said
Michael Mahaffey, spokesman for the Tequesta Republican. Approve ...

I’m
most pleased to announce that my opponent in the Florida House Race,
District 68, Dwight Dudley beat his opponent Frank Farkas. I endorsed
Dudley after I watched Farkas and the Florida GOP devolve into a viscous
campaign of lies and distortions, attacking The Law and Our
Constitution. ...

Vaccine Awakening

Posted: 10/3/2012
By
Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies,
doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising
campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a
pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5 ...

Posted
9/14/2012
by Barbara Loe Fisher
It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors
inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and
hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children.
The latest political dirty tri ...

August
28, 2012
by Barbara Loe Fisher
Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of
the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain
inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause
convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...

Posted:
6/26/2012
by Barbara Loe Fisher
On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees
working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by
the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...

Posted:
5/14/2012
Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont!
by Barbara Loe Fisher
“I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned
into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed
bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...

2020 Science

Dan
Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning,
where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good
politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough
to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to
read ...

As
Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s
probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth
is risk science?” What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a
clear and concise answer. Which is why I decided to spend ...

In
an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.
It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where
associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore
synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when
it come ...

As
you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on
the road this week. In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to
Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up
with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual
meeting in Sa ...

There’s
something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk
on your perspective on life, the universe and everything. So when the
Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of
their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

Asan
Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais
Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly
burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the
night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Reader Supported ...

Secretary
of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point,
05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)
Reader Supported News Perspective
n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack
on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...

Rachel
Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow
Show/MSNBC)
Reader Supported News Perspective
very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our
annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting
from another planet. My ...

Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)
Reader Supported News Perspective
The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible.
I was one of ...

War Resisters League

by
Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which
many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements
for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue
reading →

By
Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location
location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable
gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the
A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of
the … Continue re ...

“On
the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of
the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas
bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that
were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →

[Originally
published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For
Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the
run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years …
Continue reading →

[An
excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally
published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment
for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound
like … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

Now,
after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a
number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530
kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010,
the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.

If
pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we
can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we
can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be
causing.

October
seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful
harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second
year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are
on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused
as t ...

As
of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After
spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on
the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards
this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to
make [.. ...

k2p blog

Something
is not quite right if the death of a patient - even a terminally ill
patient - is caused deliberately and prematurely - whether by action or
by inaction - against the patient's wishes. This comes perilously close
to being an execution mandated by an institution's "policies".

Something
is not quite right if the death of a patient - even a terminally ill
patient - is caused deliberately and prematurely - whether by action or
by inaction - against the patient's wishes. This comes perilously close
to being an execution mandated by an institution's "policies".

But
there are still far too many disciplines which strive for academic or
political approval as a science long before they are mature enough to
apply the scientific method. Such frauds are not sustainable.They may
well do damage while they remain in fashion but in the long run these
"pseudoscien ...

But
there are still far too many disciplines which strive for academic or
political approval as a science long before they are mature enough to
apply the scientific method. Such frauds are not sustainable.They may
well do damage while they remain in fashion but in the long run these
"pseudoscien ...

Alarmists
and environmentalists are increasingly taking faith-based and
anti-science positions. Alarmism invokes political correctness and
"consensus beliefs" rather than evidence to silence criticism . Even
hard-core environmentalists are beginning to question this myopic
adhesion to ideology. ...

Consumerist

First
of all: Take a deep breath. If you got an email from Twitter saying it
had reset your password, the odds are that everything is just fine. The
company said it sorta kinda accidentally “unintentionally reset
passwords of a larger number of accounts” than it meant to.
There&#8217 ...

A
Florida woman says the sale of her childhood home is now in jeopardy
after squatters were discovered living in the property on the night
before the sale was supposed to close.
The homeowner recently inherited the property after her mother passed
away. But when the realtor stopped by on the eve ...

The
very young and the elderly have bodies with needs that are much
different from those of us somewhere in between, including the need to
be warm. Elderly residents at one Boston Housing Authority public
housing complex are feeling the chill after a renovation project changed
up the heating sys ...

We’re
constantly getting e-mails from readers asking if their particular
unpaid debt will hurt their credit score (Hint: the answer is likely
“yes”) or how they can repair their damaged credit score in a short
period of time (Hint: you probably can’t). The fact is, you ne ...

While
many of my Amazon purchases arrive as the result of a glass (or three)
of wine and access to the World Wide Web, the company is moving from
being the purveyor of wine accessories like wine racks and corkscrews to
booze merchants. Specifically, the company announced today that it will
be se ...

The
Story: Blowing the Whistle on Spying
Summary: GAP client and NSA whistleblower Bill Binney talked to The
Story last week about his efforts to blow the whistle on post-9/11 NSA
surveillance. According to Binney, and fellow whistleblower Kirk Wiebe,
the agency is intercep ...

Map
of North Dakota reservationsForum Communications (ND): Official Says
Children At Risk in 'Ongoing Epidemic' at Spirit Lake in New Report
Summary: In the ongoing saga of the whistleblower allegations of rampant
child sexual abuse at the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, the
whistlebl ...

The
New Zealand Herald: Fukushima Whistleblower – ‘We Shouldn’t Have Been
There’
Summary: A worker at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is alleging
that the plant knew the risks associated with highly radioactive water
at the site but sent in crews without adequate protection. The plant exp
...

UK Progressive

by
Brent Budowsky At the moment of his greatest political triumph, which
will rank among the finest in the history of the United States Senate,
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) reaches out in the tradition
of Henry Clay to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and
House Speake ...

by
Robert Reich When the applause among Democrats and recriminations among
Republicans begin to quiet down — probably within the next few days —
the President will have to make some big decisions. The biggest is on
the economy. His victory and the pending “fiscal cliff” give him an
opportunity t ...

by
Charley James The City of New York had a huge mess to clean up
Wednesday morning, and it had nothing to do with Sandy remains or
trailing effects from the Nor’easter lashing lower New England. Rather,
it’s the result of all of the talking heads on Fox and other right wing
media ex ...

by
Robert Reich The vitriol is worse than I ever recall. Worse than the
Palin-induced smarm pf 2008. Worse than the swift-boat lies of 2004.
Worse, even, than the anything-goes craziness of 2000 and its ensuing
bitterness. It’s almost a civil war. I know families in which close
relatives are no ...

by
Charley James The Republican Party is doing everything in its power to
disenfranchise, challenge and intimidate voters across the USA. Here are
examples from across the USA Virginia Ginger Weigel, a 47-year old
administrative assistant in Columbus Ohio, showed up at her polling
station in a w ...

JoNova

ARC Grants have just been announced for 2013 Let’s look at what won a
grant in light of the fact that nearly 80% of all the applications for
ARC funding fail. (Indeed Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt wonders if our
best scientists are hobbled by an arduous waste-of-time process where
they spe ...

Good
news for climate bloggers (why aren’t I “excited”?) The topic no one
was going to mention in the election campaign, just got a mention. And
in less than 24 hours, it’s already being revived from oblivion. Banking
group HSBC tells us that: Barack Obama may consider i ...

Voting
is now underway in all states of the US including Hawaii and Alaska.
Something very strange is going on with money. Normally bets are a
decent indicator, but in the US right now as people roll out to vote,
polls are largely at 50:50, but betting odds of 2-9. The bet-takers own
website exp ...

Photo:
Jo Nova Post by: Lance Pidgeon with assistance from Chris Gillham and
others. It is as if history is being erased. For all that we hear about
recent record-breaking climate extremes, records that are equally
extreme, and sometimes even more so, are ignored. In January 1896 a
savage blast ...

ReNew America

(Wes
Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the
land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the
process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political
class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...

(Alan
Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision,
many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that
G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the
Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual
mandate p ...

(Timothy
P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are
capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to
free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply
distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's
stimulus and h ...

(Janice
Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves
that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to
change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain.
In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now
beginning to ...

(Daily
Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to
practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty
from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil
contempt of Congress...

In
the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a
ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named,
"Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media,
there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting
and understated ...

At
TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty
to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this
cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every
civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to
suspect the ...

John
D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate
dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find
other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in
the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this
subject ou ...

Have
a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop
connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and
politics to international banksters and chemtrails.
Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's
perspective:

2012 Blog

I’ve
been told off many-a-time for using the following image to represent
the Mayan doomsday meme:
It is known as the Aztec Sun Stone / Aztec Calendar Stone / Aztec Sun
Disk – yep, it is of Aztec origin and not Mayan. Pedants out there take
great pleasure in pointing this out.
Howe ...

This is brand new – just released this weekend, and is perhaps the last
piece of new, quality 2012 science available before the ancient Mayan
doomsday. Video link below.
Does the sun have the power to transform humankind?
In Solar (R)evolution, world-renowned German biophysic ...

I
found this via Dennis McClung’s blog…
The statistician and skeptic in me says that of all the books ever
written about the future, some would have nominated 2012 and some would
have got some things right. That isn’t especially meaningful, it’s the
same as a million monk ...

All
of my 2012 work has revolved around aspects that are scientifically
plausible – even if sometimes they are a bit “out there”. Here’s
something that is definitely scientific, Violence Due in 2020:
Professor Peter Turchin suggests that peaks of violence in the US work
...

For me this is one of the most powerful pieces of evidence, in that it causes people to think:
Once upon a time, and not too long ago, hippopotami waded English rivers.
Hippos are from Africa, and African weather reaches the United Kingdom only a couple of times per year….
Pretty much ther ...

Facing South

After
Tuesday's election, President Obama's health care plan remains alive.
But its future is uncertain, with many Southern states still uncommitted
to creating insurance exchanges and others rejecting federal funding to
expand coverage for the poor.
read more

The
race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court is turning out to be one of
the state's most expensive contests, largely due to spending from
conservative groups. Many of the special interests pouring money into
the contest may have high stakes in the outcome.
read more

The
authors of the 1968 Fair Housing Act wanted to reverse decades of
government-fostered segregation. But presidents from both parties
declined to enforce a law that stirred vehement opposition.
read more

President
Obama won three Southern states en route to the White House in 2008.
What's happened in the South's swing states? Is it any different than
what's happened in the rest of the country? And can he still win?
read more

With
True the Vote and other tea party-affiliated groups planning a massive
poll-watching effort for this election, voting rights advocates are
mobilizing in unprecedented numbers to fight back against intimidation.
read more

One News Page

BEIJING
(Reuters) - President Hu Jintao warned China's incoming leaders on
Thursday that corruption threatened the ruling Communist Party and the
state, but said the party must stay in charge as it battles growing
social unrest.
Reported by Firstpost 52 minutes ago

NEW
DELHI (Reuters) - India will pay 300 billion rupees ($5.5 billion) to
state-owned fuel retailers forced to sell at cheaper government-set
rates in the first half of the year, said three sources who saw the
finance ministry's confirmation letter.
Reported by Firstpost 52 minutes ago

Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh today called up US President Barack Obama to
congratulate him on his re-election and said this had given the
opportunity to the two countries to carry forward and build on the
'enormous successes' achieved in bilateral ties in the last few years.
Reported by IndiaT ...

Oriental Review

The
history of the third parties in the US is a struggle for survival.
Political analysts often proclaim that bipartisanship is hardwired in
the structure of the electoral process. They notice three main factors
that predetermine the existence of the two-party system: campaign
finance rules, Ele ...

The
US presidential elections are not direct, not universal, not equal, and
do not safeguard the secrecy of voting. This is shown by the reports of
all the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights’
missions to monitor the US presidential elections starting from 2002.
The re ...

Part
I Part II Part III What else is in the third basket from Uncle Sam? The
Russian Foreign Ministry report on human rights in the United States,
along with other crimes, recorded numerous cases of police abuse. In
January 2009, the American edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal
published t ...

Part
I Part II Uncle Sam and the «matrix of justice» A very special topic in
the report by the Russian Foreign Ministry on human rights in the U.S
on the partial review of offenses committed by the American side, is in
the absolutely abhorrent practice of extra-judicial killings abroad. As
part ...

Part
I Uncle Sam, you’re wrong! The fundamental political rights of
Americans in today’s society, not only are not exempt from elements of
an archaic character, but they have become even more vulnerable, and
even more manipulated. Uncle Sam is increasingly dominating them.
Elections ...

BlogHer

[Editor's
Note: I have good news, parents. Your kids are listening to you! I also
have bad news, of course. The problem, according to Robyn at Hollow
Tree Ventures, is that your kids speak a different language than you.
Have no fear! Robyn made us a Parent-to-Kid Dictionary so you can begin
to u ...

Ever
find that you are wondering how to put in that one special touch here
and there that will set your event apart from others that you've hosted?
It all really comes down to the details! You don't have to rent a horse
to escort your guests into your party (a la Bridesmaids), just try one
or a ...

The
internet has been flooded with excellent Nail Art and I’ve pinned more
nail inspirations then I will ever have time to try. When the trend
first started, I loved ogling the lovely nails, but I kept my distance. I
could barely paint my nails a solid color and have them look nice. My
right han ...

Editor's
Note: Ashleigh Burroughs was shot three times at Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords' Tucson, Arizona press event in January 2011. She has been
writing about the shooting and its aftermath for BlogHer. Below is what
she had to say after gunman Jared Loughner's plea bargain in August.
Loughner was o ...

[Editor's
Note: Are you a gamer? I love reading what The Married Gamers have to
offer, I'm not a Call Of Duty enthusiast myself, but I can certainly
relate to bonding with my hubby through gaming! --Morgan]courtesy of
Activision
By now you’ve probably heard of Call of Duty. Maybe you’ve already ...

Health Freedom Alliance

Dealing
with the symptoms of chronic digestive dysfunction can be discouraging
for many people, especially when unknown dietary and environmental
triggers constantly seem to create bloat, abdominal pain, gas, and other
problems. But correcting the ...

A new
study released by the American Academy of Pediatrics states that boys
in America are reaching puberty at an earlier age than is considered
standard 30 to 40 years ago. Which translates to a full 6 ...

Royal
Jelly is unique and its health benefits are tremendous in bees and in
humans. This creamy secretion, produced by worker bees, is fed to bee
larvae to develop them into workers. However, if higher ...

Women
who drink green tea may lower their risk of developing some digestive
system cancers, especially cancers of the stomach/esophagus and
colorectum, according to a study led by researchers from
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
The study by ...

The
human brain is unquestioningly an amazing thing. But for all its
strengths, it can be pretty glitchy at times. And indeed, as new
research from Case Western Reserve has revealed, our brains have two ...

Live News Wire

Those
who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial
have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers
and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned
for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more.
It was a ...

The
Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been
visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18
others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed
Wednesday.
It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to
author ...

At
least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time
Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a
prominent Congresswoman.
Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District
was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...

The
worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being
described as nothing short of Biblical.
More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the
floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to
vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Across
West Virginia, the polls have opened. Election Day 2012 has begun. The
endless news articles, television ads and public opinion surveys are
over. Now we vote. In our nation’s coalfields, it’s time for miners,
their families and their neighbors to decide if there really is a &
...

Republican
Tom Smith, left, speaks as Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey looks on
during a debate between Pennsylvania’s candidates for U.S. Senate, at
the WPVI-TV studio, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, in Philadelphia. (AP
Photo/Matt Rourke) We’ve written before on this blog about the absurdit
...

President
Barack Obama waves to supporters during a campaign event at McArthur
High School, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in Hollywood, Fla. (AP Photo/Pablo
Martinez Monsivais) With Election Day finally almost here, there’s been a
flurry of last-minute coverage of coal-mining issues and coal&#8217
...

In
this April 2010 photo, miners watch as a piece of equipment passes by
in the Tech Leasing and Rebuild Inc. Mine #1 in Buchanan County, Va. (AP
Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger) As so many of our
neighbors continue to dig out and otherwise try to recover from
super-storm Sandy, it&# ...

You’ll
notice a new simpler, cleaner design on the search results page — we’ve
been working on ways to create a consistent search experience across
the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today. We
started with tablets last year, got it to mobile phones a few weeks ago,
and are n ...

“The
best” isn’t necessarily a product or thing. It’s the reward for winning
the battle fought between patience, obsession, and desire. It takes an
unreasonably long amount of time to find the best of something. It
requires that you know everything about a product’s market, manufacture,
and desi ...

Liberals
and conservatives who are polarized on certain politically charged
subjects become more moderate when reading political arguments in a
difficult-to-read font, researchers report in a new study. Likewise,
people with induced bias for or against a defendant in a mock trial are
less likely ...

One
of the most depressing things in life is not being able have all your
friends from various phases of your life meet and spend time with each
other. I have my first friends–from growing up and high school. I have
my university friends. And I have friends from my various work phases
and ...

Fitwatch

Cops
turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence
these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday.
Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is
Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been
pictured ...

Okay,
so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can
take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be
doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent
without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch
Direct Action tact ...

Whilst
what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it
can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering
activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the
ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass)
individuals and group ...

For
the purposes of a mass demonstration, affinity groups – small groups of
people who attend the same demonstration together - are a great way to
stay safe and anonymous, providing a miniature support network that is
both empowering and practical. This is one of the first things you
should be c ...

This
is possibly the easiest form of FITwatching that can be done. It is
100% legal (although you need to read the Legal Information at the
bottom of this post), keeps you off a database and, when done en masse,
creates a sea of obscured faces that are much harder to identify. This
is something ...

Worldwide Hippies

by John
Konopak, Ph.D. (LSU, 1989, Education) WWH/CJE
+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ Critical Thinking:
All parents would claim they want their kids to think critically…Just
not til the little bastids leave home! Probably the one person who has
had the greatest ...

By
Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – No more ads, no more calls no more trees
chopped down for the tons of campaign literature! I am grateful. Yes, I
AM happy that the Prez won reelection. I am also THRILLED that so many
fine women won their races and that, so many knuckle dragging,
misogynisti ...

SANDY-TORN
NORTHEAST DEALS WITH MORE WIND, WATER Great cover for Bloombergs racist
handling of sandy. NEW YORK (AP) – The nor’easter, as promised, brought
gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding. It menaced
travelers with icy roads, snarled the Long Island Rail Road and ...

GAY
MARRIAGE, MARIJUANA BACKED IN HISTORIC VOTES Altering the course of U.S
social policy, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve
same-sex marriage by popular vote, while Washington state and Colorado
set up a showdown with federal authorities by legalizing recreational
use of mar ...

reference frame

In the past, this blog focused on relativistic optical effects and
visualizations of Einstein's theory: special relativity (download Real
Time Relativity), general relativity, and Andy Hall's relativistic
raptor.
But there's some new competition on the market:
MIT Gamelab: A slow ...

A short introduction to Consistent Histories after some trivial
appetizer
When the uncertainty principle is being presented, people usually – if
not always – talk about the position and the momentum or analogous
dimensionful quantities. That leads most people to either ignore the
princip ...

Staunch Chicken Littles such as Alexander Ač love to talk about "peak
oil", a hypothetical moment (and, in their opinion, a predictable and
important moment) at which the global oil production reaches its global
maximum.
But Phys.ORG has discussed an even more far-reaching peak of ...

For almost 15 years, the climate alarmist bigots have been dreaming
about another warm year that would dethrone 1998 as the warmest year on
the satellite temperature record. It's totally clear by now that year
2012 won't become this divine signal of their holy global warming they
have been de ...

This poll is very simple and unsurprising.
I want the U.S. readers – which make up 1/2 of the TRF visitors – to
report whom they voted for and whom they expect to win. Well, I only
mean the U.S. readers who are not crying of being tired of Bronko Báma
and Mitt Romney yet.
Who ...

Tatumba 2.0

A
CBC Marketplace investigation has uncovered potentially dangerous
levels of filth and contamination in hotel rooms across the country. CBC
| Top Stories News
Related posts:
Radioactive Contamination On San Francisco’s Treasure Island: A Tale Of
US Government Obfuscation & Willful Ig ...

Terrorism
Comes to Canada The west coast of Canada is now under attack
by terrorists while British Columbia Premier, Christy Clark, continues
to cover up her government’s participation in the murder of Justice
Carolyn Layden-Strevenson and Ottawa lawyer, Eric Noel,&#160 ...

from
Silver Vigilante: In the expeditiously metastasizing economy of
globalization, the traditional means of accomplishing work in everyday
life now have the opportunity to be revolutionized in their present
makeup. To a small degree, for the western nations, what work is has
changed in the wake ...

The
Canadian military has launched a formal investigation after a racially
charged video was leaked to CBC News. CBC | Top Stories News
Related posts:
Mom charged in baby deaths gives birth in custody A woman charged with
killing two babies and trying to...
Spy Delisle’s guilty ple ...

by
Forrest Jones, Money News: A newly re-elected President Barack Obama
will continue encouraging loose monetary policies that will fuel
inflation rates down the road, and investors need to get ready now, said
famed commodities investor Jim Rogers. Under Obama’s first term in
office, the F ...

Enviroblog

By Briana
Dema, EWG Law Fellow The Environmental Working Group and Public Citizen
have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to support a
San Francisco law that would require cell phone retailers to distribute
a consumer...
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...

By
Jason Rano, Director of Government Affairs There is now solid evidence
that Americans have gotten the message that the plastics chemical
bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that can disrupt the hormone system,
is hazardous to their health. On September...
[[ This is a content summary only. ...

By
Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas
may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners
near wells. The New York Times reported last month that uncertainty over
whether hydraulic...
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...

Quick Hits

The
neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company:
Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and
green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring
the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for
students. Teachers' u ...

MANILA/MILAN
(Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent
catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the
cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across
the Middle East.
Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...
The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate
about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it
made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A
leading member of the road lobby said moto ...

Wellbeing
in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years,
even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted
President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the
percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005.
In ...

Views & News from Norway

Oslo’s
main airport at Gardermoen along with airports in Trondheim and Bergen
were spared new strike action by ground personnel on Thursday, but air
traffic control delays continue to loom because of short staffing in the
towers. More than 200 members of the labour union Handel og Kontor w
...

Police
in Bergen were holding a man in custody on Thursday after he ran amok
with a hammer and crowbar in the middle of the night. The man smashed up
no less than 26 parked cars before he was finally caught. Residents of
the area called police around 3am when they heard the sounds of [...]

Norwegian
environmental organization Bellona was calling on Thursday for
Norwegian regulatory agencies to do a better job of regulating offshore
oil and gas installations, following Wednesday’s evacuation of an
accommodation platform off Kristiansund that threatened to tip over. The
platf ...

Scandinavian
Airlines (SAS), caught in severe turbulence over its heavy debt and
high costs, failed to present as scheduled on Thursday either its
third-quarter results or its plans for dealing with its latest financial
crisis. Analysts and reporters were told SAS executives need more time
to re ...

An
accommodation platform off the northwest coast of Norway was being
evacuated on Wednesday after it started to tilt in the early morning
hours. Helicopters were sent out to the platform from the nearest
mainland base at Kristiansund. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported
that 374 offshore work ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

When
it comes to our understanding of the unfolding global crisis, each of
us seems to fit somewhere along a continuum of awareness that can be
roughly divided into five stages:
Dead asleep. At this stage there seem to be no fundamental problems,
just some shortcomings in human organizatio ...

by
Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute
In the race to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of
energy and avoid runaway climate change, wind has opened a wide lead on
both solar and geothermal energy. Solar panels, with a capacity totaling
70,000 megawatts, and geothermal power ...

by
Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute
The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of
energy is under way. As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity
deepens, and as concerns about pollution and climate instability cast a
shadow over the future of coal, a new world ...

I
awoke this morning eager to find out the results of November 6th’s
voting in the U.S. of A. And no, I’m not talking about the tiresome
presidential election….
The voting I’m referring to is in regards to Proposition 37 — the bill
aimed at getting GMO-contain ...

Pointman's

There’s
this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public
mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and
therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s
nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...

Blogging
is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to
fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your
family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of
control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at
some consid ...

I’ve
spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real
intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it,
because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of
complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business,
but that’s what made i ...

For
various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet
and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s
one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I
am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...

Political
influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally
exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are
simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their
electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...

Journalists' Toolkit

There
are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are
pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order:
Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please
(not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to
Learn Jav ...

This
is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data
Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information
related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something
you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python
(April 2 ...

How
do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you
have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started
working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we
had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting
a small ...

The
new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a
carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing
software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for
beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who
are teaching vid ...

I
have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New
tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4
and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created
to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still
online, and all t ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

District
B City Council candidate Eric Strachan sent out a mailer this week
attacking one of his opponents for supporting Barack Obama. While
President Obama is not popular in Louisiana, he is popular in New
Orleans, including in the district Strachan seeks to represent. In 2008,
Obama easily ca ...

In
response to Hurricane Sandy and those who are looking for places to
donate, we are publishing below an edited excerpt/combination from
articles about the Red Cross and relief previously posted on this site.
Perhaps nowhere in the US is Red Cross as unpopular as in New Orleans,
where the mem ...

Al
Jazeera English is a 24-hour news channel available in more than 250
million households in over 130 countries. They have 65 bureaus across
the globe, mostly rooted in the global South. As part of their US
election coverage, they are airing this series of short videos focused
on some of the is ...

Reposted
from the Alliance Institute:
Supporters of bounce music culture rallied on Oct. 18th in front of 201
St. Charles, home of Cumulus Broadcasting and 102.9FM Radio, asking
that station management reinstate the “Power Posse” morning show.
Recently the “Power Posse” was taken off the ...

From
a press release from friends of the Librotraficantes:
Join the Librotraficantes for an evening of contraband prose at Casa
Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, Friday, November 2, from
7-8:30pm.
Imagine the New Orleans School Board banning African American books.
Well, the equiv ...

Fuck
sake, party system, America is fucked
http://rt.com/usa/news/jesse-jackson-house-absence-194/
On Election Day, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sat in a Minnesota hospital
being treated for depression and bipolar disorder, where he had been for
five months. Despite his absence, the congressman was r ...

Carolyn Yeager covered this topic in depth:
http://thewhitenetwork.com/data/audio/t ... 121103.mp3
Worth a listen, IMHO.
Should we accept the truth of the Protocols of Zion?
Published on November 3, 2012by Carolyn in Saturday Afternoon with Carolyn Yeager
Oct. 3, 2012
Carolyn wades into t ...

environment 360

Given
the failure of international climate negotiations, an Oxford University
economist says a carbon consumption tax would be the most effective way
of lowering CO2 emissions. If countries are serious about addressing
climate change, he argues, then they must pay for the carbon pollution
they c ...

International
talks to protect large areas of the Southern Ocean surrounding
Antarctica collapsed last week after several nations, including China,
blocked the proposal over concerns about fishing access, according to
reports. Representatives from 25 member states — including China,
Russia, the ...

Some
mountain meadows in the U.S. Northwest are steadily disappearing as the
effects of climate change have allowed trees to invade the ecosystemsin
recent decades, a new study says. In an analysis of Jefferson
Click to enlarge
Oregon State University
A meadow at the base of Mount Jefferso ...

As
the storm that was Hurricane Sandy weakened over Pennsylvania, NASA
released a timelapse animation of the lifespan of the massive storm,
tracking its path from
NASAVIDEO: The path of Sandy the Caribbean, where it developed, to its
violent landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. The ...

Since 2007, photographer James Balog has deployed dozens of time-lapse
cameras on four continents to chronicle one of the starkest examples of
global warming — the rapid melting of the world’s glaciers. That
project, known as the Extreme Ice Survey and carried out in
collaboration wit ...

backofthebook

By
Mark Leiren-Young When I walk into the downtown Toronto hotel room to
meet Salman Rushdie, I can’t help scoping the halls for bodyguards. Even
though he’s no longer in hiding, there’s still a three million dollar
bounty on the writer’s head and he’s still the most buzzed about
celebrity at th ...

By
John Klein (aka Saskboy) I find the current political and media climate
in Canada to be insufferably stupid. Despite there being excellent,
professional journalists everywhere, there are many more time/space
fillers who skew the public’s perception of what is going on and what
really ma ...

By
Nathaniel Moher Are you sitting down? Well . . . answer the question.
Whatever. If you’re not sitting down, you should be sitting down,
because I’m about to blow your mind. Did you know that there are other
Liberals that aren’t Justin Trudeau? And I’m not talking about his
father Joseph, I’m ...

By
David@Sixthestate.net Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget
coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some
appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought it
would be nice to look at the end of the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
Symbolic of the shif ...

By
David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms
in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget
. . . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The
mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government
is setting here. E ...

Loonwatch

"The
morning after and days that follow will no doubt bring the pangs of
regret: that no one was strong enough to transcend the foolishness and
make a real difference, and that this is all hastening to the time where
things truly fall apart."

Japan Times

The
government and the United States plan to launch working-level talks
early next month on revising the guidelines for bilateral defense
cooperation, officials said Thursday.
Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto has expressed his willingness to
rethink the guidelines in a bid to deal with emergi ...

For
the first time since 2009, the Kyushu Basho, Nov. 11-25, will see two
yokozuna featured on the ranking sheet. Hakuho is in the slightly more
prestigious east slot, with Harumafuji over on the west side of the
banzuke.
Harumafuji will, of course, be the one many want to see in his first
tou ...

Residents
living near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa sued for
damages Thursday for excessive noise levels.
Lawyers for the 1,199 plaintiffs demanded ¥470 million in compensation
from the central government during the first session before the Naha
District Court's branch ...

On
Nov. 16, the Goethe-Institut Tokyo will host an event titled "Die
NiemandsklÃ¤nge" ("The Sounds of Nobody"), which will feature a
symposium and a concert focusing on artistic expression in Japan
following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the
ensuing nuclear disaster.
P ...

U.S.
President Barack Obama has won a second term in the White House. His
victory was narrow, but it was definitive. Equally important for him,
his Democratic Party retained control of the U.S. Senate. On the other
hand, as expected, the Republican Party maintained its majority in the
House of R ...

Alexander Higgins

Alexander
Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my
“foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the
Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I
worked … Continue reading →

Making It Count - CCPA

Increasingly,
leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from
within. It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing and
eliminating poverty in this province have engaged in a broadening
conversation about how to end working poverty through decent jobs, a
better mini ...

The
Harper government likes to remind Canadians that we’ve done better than
most developed nations in bouncing back from the global economic
crisis. But digging into the data shows why many people might be having
trouble cheering this news: wages have not kept pace with inflation, and
new hires ...

Food
Banks Canada released its latest statistics on national food bank usage
this week. The data are assembled in a document titled HungerCount
2012. Not only has food bank usage continued to increase, more and more
users are working and more are families with children. According to
the repor ...

In
recent years the world has experienced a sequence of
climate-change-related disasters. Hurricane Sandy comes on top of
massive drought through the summer that has led to 40% loss of American
corn and other grain crops, raging wildfires in the southeast US,
tornados and derechos, etc – and tha ...

In
a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Canadian Minister of
Finance Jim Flaherty expressed worries about the financial burden laid
on taxpayers by having the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
(CMHC) deal and trade mortgages. As a remedy, he suggests privatizing
the federal Crown co ...

ReDress

Stuart
Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical
charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven
groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.

Redress
Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now
on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in
the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from
our old website to the new one.

Alan
Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad
enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term
without the president’s blessing and American participation.

Nureddin
Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the
climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims".
But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent
protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring
Arabs and M ...

Lawrence
Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence
of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United
States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American
leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies
and behav ...

Physics Today

BBC:
Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution
as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require
liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or
silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a
clear view ...

Science:
In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating
expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae".
The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three
men wante ...

Talking
Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a
four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it
had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded
in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).

Earth
Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the
energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind
power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report
from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10
percent ...

Nature:
In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at
CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle
accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson
National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of
electr ...

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Peakwater

“San
Francisco voters rejected overwhelmingly a measure that sought to
restore of flooded gorge in Yosemite National Park that is used as a
giant city reservoir. “The San Francisco Department of Elections on
Wednesday reported that only about 23 percent of voters supported
Measure F. ...

“Santa
Cruz voters have soundly said they want a future vote on a
controversial desalination plant. Measure P, a ballot question organized
by the Right to Vote on Desal Coalition, asked voters not whether they
want to approve the plant but rather whether they want a future say on
plans to ...

“Next
week, voters in San Francisco will decide whether the city should draw
up plans to end a century-old dispute over the environmental cost of
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, which supplies 61 percent of the city’s
drinking water. The cost of removing O’Shaughnessy Dam and replacing
both it ...

“Water
scarcity has received a lot of attention over the last three decades.
It has been predicted to be the source of future wars and many experts
have publicly warned about the dangers of water scarcity as the main
factor for armed conflict in the Middle East and Africa. Despite the
pre ...

“The
plant currently holds 200,000 tonnes of highly contaminated waste
water, used to cool the broken reactors, but operator, Tokyo Electric
Power Company, continues to struggle to find ways to store the toxic
substance. TEPCO has said they are running out of room to build more
storage tan ...

D. Kucinich

“I arrived from Washington on Monday, November 5 to discover that my
home had been burglarized and ransacked. The Cleveland Police Department
responded promptly and they are investigating,” said Kucinich.

Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video criticizing
the lack of oversight in the United States’ combat drones program.
Kucinich also announced plans to hold a Congressional briefing on the
drone program on November 16, 2012.
See the video here.
“The Washing ...

Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement
responding to news reports that the State Department is organizing a new
conference in Qatar to organize scattered Syrian opposition groups into
a single entity. Previous efforts resulted in the Syrian National
Council, co ...

Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video explaining
how American tax dollars go to subsidize the childhood obesity epidemic
facing America. Kucinich is author of legislation, HR 4310, which would
end the subsidy.
See video here.
“Did you know that YOU are paying to ...

Authentically Wired

…
and after all the $$$ corporate has spent in propaganda on the virtues
of unregulated capitalism … Americans Aged 18-29 Have a More Favorable
View Towards Socialism Than Capitalism 11-04-2012 •
http://www.dailypaul.com, by Paulreal A recent Pew poll showed that
young people IN THE ...

…
? … do you really believe the either political party supports any
electoral process they cannot control or manipulate …? Arizona’s
Proposition 121 Explained 11-04-2012 • http://www.youtube.com,by
IVoterNetwork 90 Second Explanation of Prop 121. The proposition would
fundament ...

… Instead of ranting about the NY Times why not inform us which
publications, in your opinion, provide honest information …! The
despicable New York Times is a pro-Monsanto rag, and it has been
tweeting out lies and disinformation about Proposition 37 in an effort
to make sure it fails: h ...

Popular Technology

2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into
the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of
whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years.
The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will
we be in ...

"Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to
believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has
admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry
King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the
Democratic ...

In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had
their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was
revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into
eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist
positions,
" ...

In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had
their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was
revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for
fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress,
"Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...

In
March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their
forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread
titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly
posted,
"This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's
Climate ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

Over
the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as
controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for
several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged
by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving
substantial greenhou ...

A
dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations
(UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups.
Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama
(COONAPIP), indigenous ...

A
high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam
in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the
government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the
ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the
massive dam, whic ...

Latin
America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of
forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and
2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss
and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...

When
the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a
massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest,
stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the
continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in
rivers and giant ant ...

Science - NZ Herald

Archaeologists
in France have unearthed a rather hairy fossil - a nearly complete
skeleton of a mammoth.The bones - thought to belong to a creature that
roamed the earth between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago - were discovered
by...

A
partnership between a Victoria University professor and his former
student has led to a startup which has developed technology to alter the
colour and properties of wool.Chemical and physical sciences professor
Jim Johnston worked...

Rakon's
plan to shift New Zealand manufacturing to lower-cost plants in India
and China will help address a "commoditisation" that has taken place in
the smart wireless device segment of its business and the challenge
posed by the...

The Bovine

From
USA Today: “SAFED, Israel (AP) — Moshe Rute survived the Holocaust by
hiding in a barn full of chickens. He nearly lost the use of his hands
after a stroke two years ago. He became debilitated by recurring
nightmares … Continue reading →

From
David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “The International Milk
Genomics Consortium (IMGC) continues to challenge the conventional
wisdom about milk. After deleting one of its articles from the October
issue about the potential benefits of raw milk, it now … Continue read
...

From
Natural News.com (NaturalNews) Proposition 37 appears to have failed at
the ballot box in California, according to the California Secretary of
State ballot measures results. The GMO labeling ballot measure, which
would have required food companies to label the GM … Continue reading
&# ...

Californians
vote today on whether they want GMO-containing foods labeled as such.
From Suzanne Goldenberg in The Guardian (UK): “Monsanto and other
agribusiness and food companies have spent more than $45m (£28m) to
defeat a California ballot measure that would require labelling of
some G ...

Californians
vote today on whether they want GMO-containing foods labeled as such.
From Suzanne Goldenberg in The Guardian (UK): “Monsanto and other
agribusiness and food companies have spent more than $45m (£28m) to
defeat a California ballot measure that would require labelling of
some G ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

Merkel
and Cameron Deadlocked
British Prime Minister David Cameron is locked in a battle with German
chancellor Angela Merkel over whether to increase the size of the EU
budget.
Cameron is the only holdout (yet he deserves no credit for his
position). Rather, the British Parliament Vo ...

Covered
employment is the set of working employees that have unemployment
benefits.
Self-employed persons such as myself have to pay into state unemployment
insurance programs but we are ineligible to receive benefits (we are
not covered).
Similarly, people selling trinkets on Ebay a ...

With
all the focus (mine included) on the US elections it was easy to
overlook some quite a lot of extremely poor economic reports in the
Eurozone.
By the way, many people are attributing the stock market decline to the
election of Obama. I was up at 3:00AM and the futures were still green.
...

It's
a sea of red in the US and European equity markets following the
victory of president Obama and statements made by ECB president Mario
Draghi. US equities are now down well over 2% and most of Europe was
down between 1 and 2 %.
Things would not be any different if Romney had won.
...

People
Believe What They Want to Believe
Conventional wisdom says late deciders break against the incumbent.
I said otherwise. I based my 90% likelihood of an Obama win on the
notion that late deciders break in an unknown manner but in a big way.
When the surge in support for Romney ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Recovery
& Resistance: Sandy, Obama, and the Fight for Health Care The past
ten days have seen the utter devastation of Hurricane Sandy and the
triumph of Barack Obama. From ignoring heavily affected poor and working
class communities to framing Obama’s victory as a triumph for democr
...

Please
help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or
fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their
advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct
support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you
for all you do: Supp ...

Mass
Delusion & Obama’s Election Obama’s re-election was a wonderful
example of how the public relations and advertising industries created
what Walter Lippmann referred to as the “bewildered herd” of “ignorant
and meddlesome outsiders” who need to have t ...

“America
is a one party state with two wings-Each replicates the other.” The
same party wins every time. Duopoly power rules. America is a one party
state with two wings. Each replicates the other. On major issues
mattering most, not a dime’s worth of difference separates them. The
late G ...

bloody crossroads

The
debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction
from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in
2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the
president and … Continue reading →

Good
politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How
the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some
cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart
phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →

For
those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version…
Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly
you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give
… Continue reading →

Politifact
on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read:
scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of
years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of
global warming and … Continue reading →

Politifact
on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read:
scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of
years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of
global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

Dolphin
Drilling Ltd, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy ASA, received a letter
of intent today for the provision of the accommodation semi-submersible
Borgholm Dolphin for a twelve month period commencing [...]

Singapore-based
shipowner Britoil Offshore Services Pte Ltd. entered into a contract
today with the Ulstein Group for the design and equipment packages for
two platform supply vessels of Ulstein’s new [...]

Singapore-based
Ezra Holdings Ltd announced today that its subsea division, EMAS AMC,
secured two contracts with major South Korean clients worth a combined
total of approximately US$200 million. EMAS AMC [...]

Syrian
President Bashar Assad has dismissed the likelihood of any Western-led
military intervention against his country, saying the domino effect of
such adventurism will be unbearable for the global community.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

The
rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since
February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high
unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects
that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The
share of ...

The
military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use
modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As
directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act,
today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...

More
than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas
contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001.
Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that
have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic
stress di ...

Yesterday
I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget
and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in
several of last week’s blog posts:
CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022
Fundamental Fiscal Challenge
How ...

The
federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the
first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest
Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for
the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain
payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a
piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly
too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...

One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry
are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they
need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...

Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance
genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have
shown this week.
Writing in Science, Washington University St...

A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary
systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are likely to have had
violent pasts.
The evidence stems from a difference in the way th...

This week, the journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated
to the subject of black hole research, and Rob Fender of the University
of Southampton reviewed what we know about the X-ray emi...

Nick Turse

Blurbs are coming in for my next book, Kill Anything That Moves: The
Real American War in Vietnam and I can’t help but share this one from
Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciato,
and If I Die in a Combat Zone, among others. I’m left speechless.
“This bo ...

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